Is it getting too cheap to cause mass havoc?
Weapons of Mass Destruction keep getting cheaper
to make and technology transfer to the civilian side means that over time,
anybody with a burning desire to get a nuke or other WMD will get one. So how
can we survive in such a world?
When the first atomic bomb was made, it took a
tremendous amount of technical know-how and infrastructure to build and keep a
bomb. The US, on a war footing, could not have quickly produced a 3rd atomic
bomb if the Nagasaki bomb had not ended Japanese resistance.
Today, the real nightmare is when we
all can make our own WMD. We're not there yet but it will soon be within the
capability of a highly motivated and large sub-national group to do it. Al
Queda's efforts to do just this have been uncovered in several countries.
Posted: Mon - October 6, 2003 at 03:52 PM