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I just finished rereading Sterling's novel, a reasonable work exploring the themes of Abolition and globalization, that is, non-state economic actors. It is a work I'm fond of, the ideas of economic democrats, of rizomes as a metaphore for distributed corporate formation, of Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, ...

Abolition is a good word.

Nuclear arsenals (estimated) by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - January 2009:

1. Russia: 4,834 deployed weapons
   
2. United States: 2,702
   
3. France: 300
   
4. United Kingdom: 160
   
5. China: 186
   
6. Israel: 80 (undeclared)
   
7. India: 60-70
   
8. Pakistan: 60
   
9. North Korea: unknown