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How do you get rid of nuclear weapons entirely? Do you somehow erase the knowledge required to build nuclear weapons? How does this prevent knowledge/building
by peteradio 4y ago
How do you get rid of nuclear weapons entirely? Do you somehow erase the knowledge required to build nuclear weapons? How does this prevent knowledge/building from moving out of sight rather than actually disappearing? When I worked in a recycling facility in college I would collect old books off the conveyor describing nuclear engineering, how do you track me down to prevent that knowledge from proliferating?
- moistly 4y ago> How do you get rid of nuclear weapons entirely? Rods from god. Eliminates headquarters and control centers every bit as effectively as a nuke, but without the radiation.
- throwaway5959 4y agoThe same way we don’t make general artificial intelligence. We all agree not do it. It’s just too dangerous. Dismantle all the nuclear warheads, destroy the materials, erase the research and focus on nuclear power instead. Whether or not we’ll be smart enough as a species to avoid these research paths and behaviors… I’m not holding my breath.
- peteradio 4y agoIf you require 100% compliance in an endeavor, count on it failing.
- thfuran 4y agoYou can't destroy the knowledge required to make nukes. It's too widespread and they're too easy to make. There's some moderately difficult engineering involved in the material processing, but the basics are dead simple. And someone is totally going to make an AGI.
- throwaway5959 4y agoThat’s where avoiding behavior is important. Nuclear weapons don’t spontaneously appear.
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- sterlind 4y agoNot a workable idea, but a good sci-fi plot: get the major powers to give up their nukes. create a single, tiny nation, a nuclear Vatican, populated by citizens from all former nuclear powers. give them a number of ICBMs. have them nuke whoever else develops the tech.
- salawat 4y agoSomething about the phrase "nuclear Vatican" makes me giggle more than it should.
- arthurcolle 4y agoNuclear Vatican should just be the US
- akoncius 4y ago
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- Qem 4y agoUS erased that possibility when it stopped honouring warranties given to states that gave up WMDs, and started screwing them one after another. Iraq, Libya, Iran... Quite impossible for North Korea to give up on their WMDs now they saw what happened to those following that route. Others took notice also.
- hodgesrm 4y ago> How do you get rid of nuclear weapons entirely? One step at a time. Start by reducing numbers radically. There's no reason for countries like the US, Russia, and China to have such large arsenals.