Comments on: If you outlaw uranium http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4154.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Bruce Chang http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4154.html/comment-page-1#comment-20472 Bruce Chang Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:06:11 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004154.php#comment-20472 Shannon, exactly. But then the nuclear freeze movement folks are cut from the same cloth as the nuts who advocate handgun bans. Shannon, exactly. But then the nuclear freeze movement folks are cut from the same cloth as the nuts who advocate handgun bans.

]]> By: Shannon Love http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4154.html/comment-page-1#comment-20471 Shannon Love Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:16:52 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004154.php#comment-20471 The overwhelming association of nuclear technology with weapons is one of the most fascinating cultural facets of the 20th century. We don't automatically link chemistry with explosives or nerve gas, medicine with bioweapons or computers with cryptography but we do automatically link anything nuclear with weapons even though it is harder to make a nuclear weapon than anything else. More people have been killed by machetes than have died by nuclear weapons. Even more strange is the fact that as weapons nukes seem to be wholly defensive in nature. There really isn't anyway to use them offensively that won't cause more problems than it solves. The overwhelming association of nuclear technology with weapons is one of the most fascinating cultural facets of the 20th century. We don’t automatically link chemistry with explosives or nerve gas, medicine with bioweapons or computers with cryptography but we do automatically link anything nuclear with weapons even though it is harder to make a nuclear weapon than anything else.

More people have been killed by machetes than have died by nuclear weapons. Even more strange is the fact that as weapons nukes seem to be wholly defensive in nature. There really isn’t anyway to use them offensively that won’t cause more problems than it solves.

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