Comments on: Thinking about Nuclear Weapons http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/01/29/thinking-about-nuclear-weapons/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Across the Aisle » Nuclear disarmament and missile defense http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/01/29/thinking-about-nuclear-weapons/comment-page-1/#comment-380622 Across the Aisle » Nuclear disarmament and missile defense Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:27:26 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/01/29/thinking-about-nuclear-weapons/#comment-380622 [...] Back in January Chris Preble wrote about the need to significantly decrease our nuclear arsenal.  I’d like to pick up from where Chris left off and propose a possible bipartisan compromise that could pave the way for this to happen - linking nuclear disarmament with the establishment of an effective missile defense.  [...] [...] Back in January Chris Preble wrote about the need to significantly decrease our nuclear arsenal.  I’d like to pick up from where Chris left off and propose a possible bipartisan compromise that could pave the way for this to happen – linking nuclear disarmament with the establishment of an effective missile defense.  [...]

]]> By: D.M. http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/01/29/thinking-about-nuclear-weapons/comment-page-1/#comment-25043 D.M. Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:04:15 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/01/29/thinking-about-nuclear-weapons/#comment-25043 Chris...I just read your article and my concern with regards to "nuclear" that ties into what you're discussing is the "Nuclear Renaissance" the world is about to go through and the after effect of the waste produced that can be used to make additional nuclear weapons. I don't know if you're aware but there now exists technology that can get rid of world's Plutonium by burning it in existing nuclear reactors using a Thorium fuel cycle, and this same fuel cylce can be used as an alternative to Uranium in reactors and most importantly it has significantly less toxicity and is Non-proliferation resistant(you can't make n-bombs). Gov.Jim Gibbons NV. was on Hardball Friday evening and in discussing alternatives to Yucca mountain he mentioned "Thorium based Fuels". Here is the link to the interwiew... http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=90e25574-6a69-41ae-bbd5-b373a4722145&f=00&fg=email. There's actually a comapany out of the DC area called Thorium Power that is developing the technology that Gov.Gibbon is referring to. Chris…I just read your article and my concern with regards to “nuclear” that ties into what you’re discussing is the “Nuclear Renaissance” the world is about to go through and the after effect of the waste produced that can be used to make additional nuclear weapons. I don’t know if you’re aware but there now exists technology that can get rid of world’s Plutonium by burning it in existing nuclear reactors using a Thorium fuel cycle, and this same fuel cylce can be used as an alternative to Uranium in reactors and most importantly it has significantly less toxicity and is Non-proliferation resistant(you can’t make n-bombs). Gov.Jim Gibbons NV. was on Hardball Friday evening and in discussing alternatives to Yucca mountain he mentioned “Thorium based Fuels”. Here is the link to the interwiew… http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=90e25574-6a69-41ae-bbd5-b373a4722145&f=00&fg=email. There’s actually a comapany out of the DC area called Thorium Power that is developing the technology that Gov.Gibbon is referring to.

]]> By: Mark Murton http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/01/29/thinking-about-nuclear-weapons/comment-page-1/#comment-24859 Mark Murton Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:17:14 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/01/29/thinking-about-nuclear-weapons/#comment-24859 How does disarming the good guys prevent nuclear proliferation by bad guys? A moral example for the immoral, I assume? How do larger numbers of nukes increase the likelihood of their use? How can a smart guy like Henry Kissinger call for the complete elimination of the US nuclear arsenal? How is it that we think nuclear weapons are exempt from the laws of physical decay, & how does one deter the bad guys with a decrepit, questionable arsenal? some questions for the woolly-minded naifs How does disarming the good guys prevent nuclear proliferation by bad guys? A moral example for the immoral, I assume?

How do larger numbers of nukes increase the likelihood of their use?

How can a smart guy like Henry Kissinger call for the complete elimination of the US nuclear arsenal?

How is it that we think nuclear weapons are exempt from the laws of physical decay, & how does one deter the bad guys with a decrepit, questionable arsenal?

some questions for the woolly-minded naifs

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