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RiverNoord

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30. War is inherently insensible.

Reply to tclambert (Reply #22)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 11:30 PM

Jan 2015

And yes, you nailed my perspective exactly. Hell, it may be that, in 20 years, 3D printers will be able to rapidly transform a small amount of sufficiently enriched uranium or plutonium into a deployable nuclear weapon.

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