Comments on: Strategic implications of a “nuclear weapons free world” http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/strategic-implication-nuclear-weapons-free-world/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Adina Kutnicki, Israel http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/strategic-implication-nuclear-weapons-free-world/#comment-250164 Adina Kutnicki, Israel Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:36:24 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=21018#comment-250164 A nuclear weapons free world will become a viable option when the world becomes a global utopia. Is it any wonder that those pressing for such pie-in-the-sky outcomes are true 'believers' in socialist/Marxist paradigms? NEVER mind that under said regimes there have been more innocents murdered than under western democratic constructs. Could it be, that the more one chases Alice-in-Wonderland designs, the more dead bodies pile up? Have our peace-at-all-costs followers learned nothing? Be that as it may, clear thinkers (one hardly has to be a nuclear expert either)understand how the real world operates. To wit, those who crave mayhem/murder will always get their hands on weapons of choice, regardless of the fantasists on the other side. Therefore, to suggest that law abiding, freedom seeking leaders would ever use weapons-of any kind-other than as a last resort,fail to discern between good and evil. Students of history understand too, that an Israel without nuclear weapons will NEVER survive, regardless of who serves as POTUS, or who becomes its PM. Similarly, a US without nuclear weapons (again, whether led by Republicans or Democrats)will animate the likes of China, Russia and every bad actor in the world. To expect their leaderships to abide by gentlemen's agreements (not to be confused with MAD) is to believe in the tooth fairy. Due to the above, if I were on a nominating committee, asked to identity who is the strongest candidate to head a 'world strategic center on WMD', I wouldn't hesitate to name Professor Louis Beres to the post.The readers-and the rest of the civilized world-would be well served. A nuclear weapons free world will become a viable option when the world becomes a global utopia. Is it any wonder that those pressing for such pie-in-the-sky outcomes are true ‘believers’ in socialist/Marxist paradigms?

NEVER mind that under said regimes there have been more innocents murdered than under western democratic constructs. Could it be, that the more one chases Alice-in-Wonderland designs, the more dead bodies pile up? Have our peace-at-all-costs followers learned nothing?

Be that as it may, clear thinkers (one hardly has to be a nuclear expert either)understand how the real world operates. To wit, those who crave mayhem/murder will always get their hands on weapons of choice, regardless of the fantasists on the other side. Therefore, to suggest that law abiding, freedom seeking leaders would ever use weapons-of any kind-other than as a last resort,fail to discern between good and evil.

Students of history understand too, that an Israel without nuclear weapons will NEVER survive, regardless of who serves as POTUS, or who becomes its PM. Similarly, a US without nuclear weapons (again, whether led by Republicans or Democrats)will animate the likes of China, Russia and every bad actor in the world. To expect their leaderships to abide by gentlemen’s agreements (not to be confused with MAD) is to believe in the tooth fairy.

Due to the above, if I were on a nominating committee, asked to identity who is the strongest candidate to head a ‘world strategic center on WMD’, I wouldn’t hesitate to name Professor Louis Beres to the post.The readers-and the rest of the civilized world-would be well served.

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