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The Obama administration negotiated a number of arms control agreements with various nations (including Russia), and won a Peace prize before they even had anyt
by stopbulying 1y ago
The Obama administration negotiated a number of arms control agreements with various nations (including Russia), and won a Peace prize before they even had anything signed.
Other nations are subject to the penalties of the NTBT.
I hope that we all hope that fusion research will displace hazardous waste in energy production.
Peace movements are sponsored by lots of people in lots of nations.
Nixon, for example, worked to smear the pro-Peace antiwar folks as drug user hippies who couldn't figure out free booze at presidential parties who thus deserved to be incarcerated (without conjugal visits, rights over their bodies and their health, library books, or the right to vote) and marginalized.
People voted to cancel saboteurially-wasteful Reagan-Bush cold war star wars bs and invested in free trade and Peace.
The US is the only NATO member state that claims immunity for War Crimes before the ICC International Criminal Court.
The US just bullied other NATO nations into committing to spending 5% of GDP on defense spending by ~~2030~~ 2035 IIRC. Defense ETFs are up since this administration took office in January, and AI datacenter and AI spending are up, but we are now otherwise lacking in economic growth and we've stopped creating new jobs.
All nations suffer the opportunity costs of war; things we could have paid for instead like healthcare, infrastructure, and education will be underfunded due to zero-sum allocation of the proceeds in the coffer to fights that don't net Peaceful returns.
- FooBarBizBazz 1y ago[flagged]
- cafard 1y agoObama got a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush. (I wasn't GW Bush, either, but somehow they overlooked me.)
- cosmicgadget 1y agoWere you elected president?
- stopbulying 1y agoActually many US Presidents have been recognized by the Nobel Peace Committee which honors the contributions of Alfred Nobel. List of heads of state and government Nobel nominees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_Nobel_nominees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_gov... List of individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2000–present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_nominated_for_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize_(2000%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_nominated_... For example, W Bush and Blair were nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 (while occupying Iraq and Afghanistan with ___ % civilian casualty rates (and while they were not paying the bill for the multi-trillion dollar debt-financed discretionary wars with Tax Cuts))
- M95D 1y ago> I hope that we all hope that fusion research will displace hazardous waste in energy production. AFAIK, both fusion and fission rely on the same neutron radiation to extract energey from the reaction. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think fusion doesn't produce hazardous waste.
- stopbulying 1y agoAFAIU critical runaway in a fusion reactor is less hazardous than in a fission reactor. Fusion reactors are super hot and there can be thermal runaway, but you can just kill the electricity to kill some fusion reactors AFAIU. There are described models where production of e.g. 3He (from standard D-T fusion or similar) is in a different facility than the fusion electricity production plants that process the 3He (in order to limit processing and distribution of hazardous materials). Hopefully the nuclear transmutation folks can find a way to retrofit existing fission plants to burn the fuel further down before storage and transport; burn it all the way down in the existing casks with lasers and radiation please.