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Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) by jjmarr on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:42PM (#48274001)
Nuclear weapons originally led to a world in which 20-30 countries established atomic bomb programs.

Instead, the global powers blocked nuclear technology from disseminating to most countries.

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Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) by applicative on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:16AM (#48278134)
This took quite a while. The idea had kicked around before, but basically, when Israel was thought to have one, the Soviets invented 'nonproliferation'. This was the theme of the hysteria that led to their triggering the 1967 war. God forbid the Jews have the capacity to protect themselves.
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