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**Smittoh** · 01-10-2007, 08:42 PM

Originally posted by Arrian
The problem I have with the "nukes prevent big wars" logic is that many weapons have been created in the past and thought to be so terrible that they would limit war (the first machine guns, IIRC, for instance). Yet we then went on to use them to slaughter each other.
-Arrian India and Pakistan came way too close a fews years back.

And so did the U.S. and the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

01-10-2007, 08:42 PM	#13
Smittoh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 627 Senior Member	Originally posted by Arrian The problem I have with the "nukes prevent big wars" logic is that many weapons have been created in the past and thought to be so terrible that they would limit war (the first machine guns, IIRC, for instance). Yet we then went on to use them to slaughter each other. -Arrian India and Pakistan came way too close a fews years back. And so did the U.S. and the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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