Comments on: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Risking Nuclear Uncertainty http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2005/11/05/the-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty-risking-nuclear-uncertainty/ Good Analysis, Bad Grammar Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: TruePath http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2005/11/05/the-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty-risking-nuclear-uncertainty/comment-page-1/#comment-868 TruePath Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:58:03 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2005/11/5/the-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty-risking-nuclear-uncertainty/#comment-868 <p>I'm not sure I understand your objection. The question is whether it is indeed a measure that makes war less likely. If in fact it makes war more likely than it shouldn't be supported just because it seems warm and fuzzy.</p> I’m not sure I understand your objection. The question is whether it is indeed a measure that makes war less likely. If in fact it makes war more likely than it shouldn’t be supported just because it seems warm and fuzzy.

]]> By: GNZ http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2005/11/05/the-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty-risking-nuclear-uncertainty/comment-page-1/#comment-862 GNZ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:14:09 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2005/11/5/the-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty-risking-nuclear-uncertainty/#comment-862 <p>Not entirely convinced - it looks to have a very minimal direct effect in exchange for a chance of a reduction in the catastrophe. those two might be a wash. But this is also about a general meme of not just 'anti nuclear" but anti war sentiment.</p> <p>My general opinion is that the sucess or failure of CTBT is not all that important although I will offer a little bit of polite clapping for those against war or those who are giving concessions to that movement for big picture reasons.</p> <p>But you are of course right that more trained minds than mine should be looking at the game-theoretic concerns and producing papers on it. I can also accept that decisions that sound smart at face value to a layman may be unbelievably stupid.</p> <p>The next step to that would be that the general public should be reading them and paying attention... fat chance of that happening.</p> Not entirely convinced – it looks to have a very minimal direct effect in exchange for a chance of a reduction in the catastrophe. those two might be a wash. But this is also about a general meme of not just ‘anti nuclear” but anti war sentiment.

My general opinion is that the sucess or failure of CTBT is not all that important although I will offer a little bit of polite clapping for those against war or those who are giving concessions to that movement for big picture reasons.

But you are of course right that more trained minds than mine should be looking at the game-theoretic concerns and producing papers on it. I can also accept that decisions that sound smart at face value to a layman may be unbelievably stupid.

The next step to that would be that the general public should be reading them and paying attention… fat chance of that happening.

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