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Date Posted: 18:16:51 04/23/08 Wed
Author: Jfish
Subject: Nuclear Rivalry

I read a book recently about the current status of nuclear arms on the earth. It's interesting because no one ever talks about them anymore, though they're ever as common. But in the book I discovered an interesting example of rivalry that could escalate to disaster.
We know that deterrence was a big factor in the nuclear arms race in the cold war, as two rival nations tried to outdo each other in everything possible. But what causes nations to acquire nuclear arms today. Interestingly, it is not quite for self-defense; it is prestige.
India and Britain have bolstered their nuclear arms just recently so as to join the world arena as competing superpowers. These countries have very little need for them, but the nations had a romantic surge of nationalism afterwards because they could now be accounted as a rival nation. I wonder how to grapple with the mimetic struggles of nations.

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