A Boeing-Northrop Team May Be The Only Way To Fix The Air Force's Flawed ICBM Competition

Ok. Let's ban them. Do you believe our enemies will comply? Do you think we will not end up in a long, costly worldwide conventional war if our neighbors are also rid of theirs?

I obv perceive, and, of course, totally expected my thought might, and, most likely, would, elicit such a reaction; truly, I really did, not that I can't perceive your point, I certainly can, by all means. That being said, I of course completely anticipated just such an argument; once again, truly. Now, that having been said, while I of course completely grant your premise, by all means, I, for one, would, for my part, at the very least, entirely prefer such an alternative for the human race, rather than the "grubbing for worms" alternative I'd just tried to paint and outline verbally above, as the lesser of two evils, if you will, since, if nothing else, your concept, while it might still leave us all "grubbing for worms", might also, nevertheless, leave us with more worms to grub, and, also, make grubbing them far easier to accomplish, if nothing else. I mean, I don't know about you, but I, for my part, prefer the worms I'd have to grub to at least be non-radioactive, if you will. I also completely grant in saying, of course, that neither alternative is esp. appealing, by any means, and one would certainly have hoped that, after several millennia of mutual head-bashing on multiple continents, the human race would have managed to have found a way by now a way to have gotten past such a seemingly constant penchant for such perpetually increasing techno-barbarism. I honestly wonder if the total number of human beings, in all wars, throughout recorded histories, could ever actually be calculated, though, I expect not, that number having long faded into the collective human unconscious by now. So, for me, once again, the only palatable alternative would appear to be to utterly ban all international war altogether, though, clearly, the human race would by all means view such an alternative as utterly simplistic, hopelessly naive, and, therefore, completely unachievable. Having now created such a philosophic quandry, one could, I suppose, expect the inevitable premise that that human race would always think that some humans, somewhere, would, without question, always, and inevitably, be the enemies of some other humans, elsewhere. Having reached that same dandy logical conclusion, Thus, there would clearly seem to be no solution whatever to our little philosophic quandry, other than to just let the human race keep on building weapon, after weapon, after weapon, until, at long last, we all really are gubbing for worms, or, as one would eventually hope, all so monumentally bored with the whole effort as to have finally concluded, once and for all, as a species, that such a long-term worldwide was obviously wholly pointless to begin with, you know? At any rate, those are a few of my further philosophic thoughts on the matter, such as they are; I of course, in relating them, once again, by no means expected to be agreed with, by any means, and obviously only intended them as purely an effort at rhetorical, tongue-in-cheek humor,of course, as well, in any event.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164154.A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

I've always loved this book, ever since I'd read it as an undergrad, and have long wanted it to be made into a movie, though, by now, unfortunately, I of course utterly despair of ever actually seeing such a prospect realized...if you've never looked through it, one and all, I've sent it in here several times, on many threads, and can only tell you that, of all the books on the whole topic I've been trying to formulate here, this one, to my mind, at least, basically presents my arguments best, at least in narrative form, if nothing else, you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwfWEKz00U

And if you've never all watched this little freebie missive, I can positively assure all of you that you'll all find it most exceedingly thought-provoking...I'd always wondered if it were actually from some sort of novel of the sort H.G. wells might've written, though I was never entirely sure...however, the scenes with Raymond Massey and Sir Cedric Hardwicke at the end are, at least, to my way of thinking, well worth the effort to have plowed through the initial part of the film, at any rate....