David


"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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It will be nice to see all countries with declared WMD (i.e. US, UK,
Russia,
China, France, Israel, India, Pakistan) following Libya's moral
example!!!


The US, UK and Russia have all deactivated and are destroying their
Chemical &
Biological weapons.


In terms of the US removing their chemical weapons program they have stopped
the Chemical Weapon Convention proposed inspections of potential sites
wthout warning, because the US would not tolerate them. It also forced the
change of the head of the organisation because he did not realise that the
US was above suspicison! It is of note that the only state on earth
publically funding advanced "war fighting" nuclear weapons (with the passage
of the recent bill through congress) is the US, with the specific aim of
using them against states that have not used nuclear weapons against the US.

(from South Africa, the only country to independantly dismatle its
operational nuclear weapons program)

You really don't expect a pat on the back do you? You guys never needed
nuclear
weapons anyway, all you needed were a few dozen white police officers with
battons, a ghetto and several hundred of your fellow (darker) countrymen.


South Africa was facing in Angola some 50,000 Cuban troops (plus Russian
advisors) by 1989. While there was never a military "defeat" of South
African troops the problem was a threat of a major power getting involved.
(For those who believe otherwise the South African combat deaths in the last
year of the Angolan war was ~35, of whom 22 died when a Cuban bomb missed
its target (a dam) and hit an undetected military position). Under those
conditions the presence of a nuclear capability would have probably
"detered" such an intevention by a major power. If Saddam Hussein had
detonated a test nuclear device in the Iraqi desert 2 weeks after invading
Kuwait in 1990 there would have been a diplomatic solution - no US president
would risk the threat of a nuclear strike on US troops or the US mainland
(delivered by container ship?).

BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it
harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"