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Let's talk about private nukes

Submitted by M.J. Taylor on Mon, 2009-11-16 11:45.

"The threat of 'private nukes' is non-existent, and would be so even in the absence of laws forbidding them. Anyone who pulls out the 'private nukes' argument in favor of 'gun control' -- or the continued existence of the state -- is, by doing so, confessing that they're all out of real arguments and grasping at straws."

full story Thomas L. Knapp: Let's talk about private nukes
[Hattip Rational Review News Daily. --MJ]

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The Knapp article is pretty

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-11-26 01:22.

The Knapp article is pretty stupid. Yes they did spend $23 billion 2008 dollars on the Manhattan project building a handful of low-yield nukes in the 1940's. Think of how much they would have had to spend in the 1940's to build the equivalent of today's laptop computers. What a high-tech device cost in the 1940's has nothing to do with what it costs now.

As for private nukes: they exist (or did, I think they have not made any lately). They were made by General Electric under contract to the US government. Fortunately the law kept GE from keeping any of them for itself. It's certainly capable of building more. For that matter, so could Microsoft, Google, or maybe more relevantly, Blackwater, Taser (whatever that company is called), etc.

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