Tuesday, August 11, 2020

            THE POSTMODERN THEORY OF DETERRENCE:
    GEOENGINEERING IS AN INVITATION TO NUCLEAR WAR,
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT ALAN ROBOCK TOLD BOB SOCOLOW

Fifty years after he wrote a letter to Krushchev demanding a unilateral nuclear attack on the United States, Fidel Castro invited perennial "Nuclear Winter" maven Alan Robock to Havana for an update. The late caudillo's departure has not deterred Alan from reframing geoengineering as an invitation to nuclear war on Australian Broadcasting Company radio:


'About ten years ago , there was a conference at the Asilomar conference center in Monterey, California , and a  professor from Princeton, Rob Socolow, went around asking:


"What's the worse thing that could happen if we did this?

The answer was global nuclear war, because if one country did something that they though would help them, and  it was harmful to another country, they might be quite upset...'