From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: The third option... (NUKES)
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1530
Posted: Sat Apr  9 09:12:37 1983
Received: Sun Apr 10 07:21:09 1983
References: houti.242

In response to Tom Craver:
Have you thought through what using out (nuclear?) weapons to prevent
the USSR from building their own would have required?  Remember that
the US and USSR were allies in WWII, and I don't believe that we have
been directly at war with each other at any point since then.  Would
you have carried out a pre-emptive strike on the USSR's research labs,
presumably in peacetime?
I'm also not convinced that the US government does not want global
domination.  The US has military forces all over the world, and has
at least given military aid to nations in Asia and Africa, as well as
in Europe and Latin America.  These forces are, of course, limited by
the USSR's forces.  I doubt that either superpower would limit its use
of power to control global events, if the other superpower didn't
counterbalance it.	-Jeffrey Soreff (hplabs!hplabsb!soreff)