radiation

[low_delta]

Nuclear weapons are bad. Very bad. I don't say this in the sense that all weapons are bad. We know weapons are designed to kill people, but nuclear weapons are worse than that.

Conventional weapons kill people. They injure and maim people. Nuclear weapons have other effects that do far worse. The radiation hangs around. Radiation has long-term effects. It's one thing to suffer a missing limb or two, but quite another to get cancer. Or have your kids get cancer. Or your children have birth defects. Or having no chance to rebuild after the war, because your land will be a barren wasteland for the next several thousand years.

Using nuclear weapons is wrong. Evil. (Have I ever used that word before?)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0510-04.htm

Maybe they'll make them small enough to leave no radiation behind?

I wonder if some government sponsors are working on some sort of environmental radiation cleanup technique?

Comments

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I know people who are working on methods of disposal of nuclear waste with the European Atomic Energy Commission. So, someone's thinkig about it.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Nuclear waste from power plants is bad enough, but having an active nuclear weapons program is even worse.