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rangerrebew:
Top commander says banning nukes would make wars worse

By Jacqueline Klimas

03/31/17 11:31 AM EDT


The nation's top nuclear commander on Friday slammed a draft U.N. resolution to ban nuclear weapons, asserting that before the nuclear age the world was marred by “death and destruction" and that the advent of atomic arms dramatically reduced great-power conflict.

“Can I imagine a world without nuclear weapons? Yes, I can. That’s a world I didn’t like,” Air Force Gen. John Hyten, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, told the Military Reporters and Editors Association annual meeting, hosted by POLITICO and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/john-hyten-nuclear-weapons-ban-united-nations-236751

Smokin Joe:
Absolutely right, especially if unilateral disarmament (a phrase some may remember from back when) is the order of the day.

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