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Weapons of Mass Destruction
Looks at the development and use of these weapons, including nuclear, biological, chemical, and radioactive weapons; reviews laws, treaties, and agreements; and includes a chronology, biographies of key figures, and a guide to research.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published April 28, 2006
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December 24, 2016
A strange scholastic exercise.
In many countries you need to register with the state and give a reason to feel good about themselves to some state bureaucrats in order to be able to cut the hair of people. Reading this book won't help you get elected inspector for WMD. Which is a sinecure for high state bureaucrats selected by high state bureaucrats.
The treaties are nicely laid down. But if you are a nuclear power there is no concern someone will come knocking asking for your "means to defend" your holy red line on the map. And if you are not, most probably you were bullied or paid to sign the damn papers anyway. Finally, it is quite unlikely that a country judge will come forward with a mandate for arrest for those responsible of stockpiling WMD.
So this book is an exercise in futility. Why and for whom? The first beneficiary are the bureaucrats writing it. Most probably that gets them one step closer to being admitted to the select club of Weapons Inspector. Or at least they can get assignments as talking heads. So both their wage will increase and they will further climb the academic ladder as published authors. So why? For the pension plan my dear.
As a side effect, old white western men can read it and have ammo for their next pointless debate about what the guest on tonight's political talk show should have talked about.
In many countries you need to register with the state and give a reason to feel good about themselves to some state bureaucrats in order to be able to cut the hair of people. Reading this book won't help you get elected inspector for WMD. Which is a sinecure for high state bureaucrats selected by high state bureaucrats.
The treaties are nicely laid down. But if you are a nuclear power there is no concern someone will come knocking asking for your "means to defend" your holy red line on the map. And if you are not, most probably you were bullied or paid to sign the damn papers anyway. Finally, it is quite unlikely that a country judge will come forward with a mandate for arrest for those responsible of stockpiling WMD.
So this book is an exercise in futility. Why and for whom? The first beneficiary are the bureaucrats writing it. Most probably that gets them one step closer to being admitted to the select club of Weapons Inspector. Or at least they can get assignments as talking heads. So both their wage will increase and they will further climb the academic ladder as published authors. So why? For the pension plan my dear.
As a side effect, old white western men can read it and have ammo for their next pointless debate about what the guest on tonight's political talk show should have talked about.
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