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A few things about it strike me as hitting all of the standard points of what is essentially Soviet/Russian propaganda - overly lurid description of the injurie
by ufmace 7y ago
A few things about it strike me as hitting all of the standard points of what is essentially Soviet/Russian propaganda - overly lurid description of the injuries caused by nuclear weapons, overly long concern about the cost of maintaining them in a deployed and ready state. Meanwhile, not a single word about the threat that other countries' arsenals pose to us or to other nations that we have pledged to defend.
Note that, like it or not, our nuclear weapons are implicitly used to defend non-nuclear nations such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, most of Europe, etc. If the US destroyed all of our nukes, all of those other countries would have to either bow down to to Russia and China, build their own nuclear weapons, or put themselves under the protection or some other nuclear superpower. Leading to a lot more nuclear powers, and probably a higher change of nuclear war happening somewhere.
The only discordant node is the pro-Second Amendment section. Not usually present in these sorts of peacenick papers. I suppose it could fit in if you take the foreign propaganda interpretation - foreign superpowers don't really want to invade us anyways, they just don't want us to interfere when they try to dominate their local neighbors. At least until so much of the world is under their thumb that we can't ignore them anymore.