Virtual Nukes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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In response to Don Gray's comment on the preferability of the design of
nuclear weapons without actually building and testing them:

That's the way the "Stockpile Stewardship Program" has been sold, and in
the short run, there may be some advantages. In the long run, however,
it will be easier for anyone to build nuclear weapons with the aid of
software developed through that program. The transfer of such software -
in the long run - cannot be controlled.

It is possible to maintain and even refurbish the existing nuclear
stockpile, if downright nuclear disarmament is rejected, without
inventing all these new tools for designing more sophisticated and
catastrophic weapons.

LS
Lenny Siegel
Director, SFSU CAREER/PRO (and Pacific Studies Center)
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
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