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Not 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
by sterlind 4y ago
Not 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
- peeringaught 4y ago[flagged]
- 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.
- arthurcolle 4y agoThe US government will find a way to ensure that its foreign policy goals are accomplished.
- mitchbob 4y agoParties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [1] have agreed to "pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control." The USA is a party to the treaty. [1] https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/text https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/text
- trinovantes 4y agoI remember an old sci-fi anime where the wars weren't fought with nuclear weapons because their world had "neutron-jammers" that prevented neutrons from triggering chain reactions
- peteradio 4y agoLol, nuke them first then.
- Qem 4y agoA "nuclear Vatican" is not necessary. UN already exists. Control of stockpiles should be transferred to its control, to be diminished and repurposed from mass destruction means to planetary defense means.