Disarmament is dead. And war is obsolete.
Disarmament is dead. The dual use nature of all technology killed it.
President Obama’s recent pledge to eliminate nuclear weapons may be popular but it is irrelevant to making humanity safer from the production or use of WMD. Only a fool would try to debate the facts below.
1. Nuclear weapons could be completely eliminated from the planet but the capacity to make biological weapons of mass destruction will remain and increase with time.
2. Biological weapons are far easier and cheaper to make and infinitely easier to deliver than nuclear weapons. They could also be more lethal.
3. The same biological technology used to create cures for cancer or HIV/AIDS can be used to make WMD that could target specific ethnic groups with a similar genetic profile.
4. Even the most intrusive Nazi like global police force wouldn't be able to control the use of this technology or find it wherever it might be misused.
As Emery Reves stated in the Anatomy of Peace, security isn’t a function of armament or disarmament. Real world security is a function of law. World law could outlaw nuclear weapons and try to outlaw the creation of biological weapons but only a world law that enforces the universal declaration of Human rights will create a human environment where the desire to use WMD will be most effectively reduced.
Working for disarmament is a distraction from creating a world where maximum freedom and security can be achieved. If you disbelieve disarmament will bring peace or security read on…
Once the mechanics and the fundamental causes of wars – of all wars – are realized, the futility and childishness of the passionate debates about armament and disarmament must be apparent to all. If human society were organized so that relations between groups and units in contact were regulated by democratically controlled law and legal institutions, then modern science could go ahead, devise and produce the most devastating weapons, and there would be no war. But if we allow sovereign rights to reside in the separate units and groups without regulating their relations by law, then we can prohibit every weapon, even a penknife, and people will beat out each other’s brains with clubs.
Emory Reves, The Anatomy of Peace, 1945
“People must bring a machete, a spear, an arrow, a hoe, spades, rakes, nails, truncheons, electric irons, barbed wire, stones, and the like, in order, dear listeners, to kill Rawandan Tutsis.” (A Hutu’s call to arms quoted in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, August 19, 1998, p. A-18)
The main focus of international attention must move beyond the symptoms of weapons proliferation to its causes. It may seem easier to control supply, yet it is demand that raises the tide of proliferation.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for Jan-Feb 1999, p. 76, "Book Note" on Kosta Tsipis and Philip Morrison's book, "Reason Enough for Hope."
"The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's], and if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him in the name of Peace."
-- George W. Bush, (1946- ) 43rd US President
Albert Einstein once said that the most powerful force in the Universe is exponential growth. Here are three facts that every policy maker must eventually consider.
1. Exponential growth of technology: The power of all technologies are growing exponentially and all have the dual use capacity for creation of WMD.
2. Linear thinking: If we think about these threats …it is likely linear thinking.
3. Flat line government change: Policy responses to both these technologies and all threats are virtually flat lined.
Time is not on humanities side.
"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet."
-- Lyle Myhr
"There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there [in Iraq]. My answer is, 'Bring 'em on.' "
-- George W. Bush (1946- ) 43rd US President, July 3, 2003
President Obama’s recent pledge to eliminate nuclear weapons may be popular but it is irrelevant to making humanity safer from the production or use of WMD. Only a fool would try to debate the facts below.
1. Nuclear weapons could be completely eliminated from the planet but the capacity to make biological weapons of mass destruction will remain and increase with time.
2. Biological weapons are far easier and cheaper to make and infinitely easier to deliver than nuclear weapons. They could also be more lethal.
3. The same biological technology used to create cures for cancer or HIV/AIDS can be used to make WMD that could target specific ethnic groups with a similar genetic profile.
4. Even the most intrusive Nazi like global police force wouldn't be able to control the use of this technology or find it wherever it might be misused.
As Emery Reves stated in the Anatomy of Peace, security isn’t a function of armament or disarmament. Real world security is a function of law. World law could outlaw nuclear weapons and try to outlaw the creation of biological weapons but only a world law that enforces the universal declaration of Human rights will create a human environment where the desire to use WMD will be most effectively reduced.
Working for disarmament is a distraction from creating a world where maximum freedom and security can be achieved. If you disbelieve disarmament will bring peace or security read on…
Once the mechanics and the fundamental causes of wars – of all wars – are realized, the futility and childishness of the passionate debates about armament and disarmament must be apparent to all. If human society were organized so that relations between groups and units in contact were regulated by democratically controlled law and legal institutions, then modern science could go ahead, devise and produce the most devastating weapons, and there would be no war. But if we allow sovereign rights to reside in the separate units and groups without regulating their relations by law, then we can prohibit every weapon, even a penknife, and people will beat out each other’s brains with clubs.
Emory Reves, The Anatomy of Peace, 1945
“People must bring a machete, a spear, an arrow, a hoe, spades, rakes, nails, truncheons, electric irons, barbed wire, stones, and the like, in order, dear listeners, to kill Rawandan Tutsis.” (A Hutu’s call to arms quoted in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, August 19, 1998, p. A-18)
The main focus of international attention must move beyond the symptoms of weapons proliferation to its causes. It may seem easier to control supply, yet it is demand that raises the tide of proliferation.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for Jan-Feb 1999, p. 76, "Book Note" on Kosta Tsipis and Philip Morrison's book, "Reason Enough for Hope."
"The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's], and if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him in the name of Peace."
-- George W. Bush, (1946- ) 43rd US President
Albert Einstein once said that the most powerful force in the Universe is exponential growth. Here are three facts that every policy maker must eventually consider.
1. Exponential growth of technology: The power of all technologies are growing exponentially and all have the dual use capacity for creation of WMD.
2. Linear thinking: If we think about these threats …it is likely linear thinking.
3. Flat line government change: Policy responses to both these technologies and all threats are virtually flat lined.
Time is not on humanities side.
"When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet."
-- Lyle Myhr
"There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there [in Iraq]. My answer is, 'Bring 'em on.' "
-- George W. Bush (1946- ) 43rd US President, July 3, 2003
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