Matt...

don't disagree at all.......... But Niether side should have that kind of destructive power....... do you think the technology... if not the weapons themselves............ won't eventually "leak" from India into hands inimical to your country and mine?

Think again.

Right now, you are focused on the "Muslim" threat

A decade or so ago it would have been the " Communist threat"

One or two decades from now? Who the hell knows.......

Point is.........

1... We may not be able to put the genie back in the bottle....

Many people in the free west wanted to... and tried... ( The Anti-nuclear movement) and were demonised as "Soviet Stooges" or " Appeasers" at the time. Too damn late now to ask if they were right.

I've looked up detailed plans of how to put a crude, A-Bomb together that could be fitted into an ordinary truck sized cargo container some years ago.... I reckon ( Given I can get enough weapons grade material together, and a team of people dedicated enough so that some of them will willing die in the construction of the bomb.) I don't need anything more sophisticated then a good precision lathe to do it.

2 .......Which leads me to several conclusions.............. Chief of which is that I should not make enemies unnesseccarily. I would want it known by all, that I have listened to both sides, have examined every side of the question and to the best of my ability... reached a fair and honest judgement...... Before I p*ss people off.

By the way... according to some casual research I've done... I can, useing utensils available in my kitchen.........and my credit card down the local " Hardware Store" make enough Mustard Gas to ruin New Yorks day.

One of the unforeseen side-effects of "Globalisation" ... the free transfer of knowledge, capital, technology, and people......is that we are all vulnerable now.