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Bill: WMD Deterrence Act

Details

Submitted by[?]: AM Populist Social Democrats

Status[?]: defeated

Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.

Voting deadline: May 2340

Description[?]:

Whereas, We would prefer not to be on the receiving end of any WMD use, and therefore have supported the ARLP's bill to reinstate our ability to retaliate, but

Whereas, Said bill goes beyond retaliation and allows us to be the first to use chemical and biological weapons, and

Whereas, The only circumstances under which we would be willing to support unleashing a plague on a population would be against a nation that has done such to us, and then mostly just because a willingness to do so is a deterrent, and

Whereas, reserving the right to first use invites pre-emptive strikes,

We hereby propose that we make it law that we will only use chemical or biological weapons against nations that use them against us.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date21:57:13, January 04, 2007 CET
FromAM Radical Libertarian Party
ToDebating the WMD Deterrence Act
MessageWe feel that there may be circumstances under which we would prefer the ability to use chemical agents to retaliate against non chemical/biological attacks. For example, if a nation with a well dispersed industrial or military base uses nuclear weapons against us, chemical retaliation may be more useful than a nuclear response in kind.

Therefore, we must regretfully vote in the negative on this bill.

Date22:07:07, January 04, 2007 CET
FromAM Populist Social Democrats
ToDebating the WMD Deterrence Act
MessageIf there were a similar proposal as for nuclear weapons, that allowed chemical weapons to be used against any WMD use, we would find that proposal acceptable. What we find dangerous (even to our own citizens) is our effectively threatening to use not only chemical-- and especially biological-- weapons offensively rather than in retaliation.

The danger to our own citizens is that such an implied threat invites a pre-emptive strike, whereas if we pledge only to use such weapons if another nation does first, that makes a pre-emptive strike highly unlikely.

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Voting

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Total Seats: 89

no
  

Total Seats: 110

abstain
 

Total Seats: 0


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