Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix3.panix.com!not-for-mail From: "Keith F. Lynch" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Babel Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 00:51:47 -0000 (UTC) Organization: United Individualist Message-ID: References: <0ee80714-fdeb-d8d2-b611-54b77e0251ac@example.net> Injection-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 00:51:47 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix3.panix.com:166.84.1.3"; logging-data="17537"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1837 Lines: 21 Jeff Urs wrote: > Gary McGath wrote: >> Confiscating the major weapons is the real problem. Picking up >> nuclear weapons and carrying them off would cause all kinds of >> international and logistical issues, and someone might decide to >> launch them rather than give them up. They're probably already >> poorly maintained and unreliable, but that could just mean that >> instead of blowing up their intended target, they'll blow up >> somebody else. > In all the history of the Thing, only Bilbo -- I mean, Ukraine -- > has voluntarily given it up, and that took all our help... And I'll bet they regret giving them up. What a great lesson for other nuclear powers who are being urged to give them up. Also, if I was Bilbo I would have kept the One Ring. But then I've always been a packrat. And a ring takes up much less space than a bunch of nuclear weapons and their launchers. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.