From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!courtney
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: Are nuclear weapons *special*? - (nf)
Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1008
Posted: Fri May  6 00:41:40 1983
Received: Tue May 17 20:13:29 1983

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hp-pcd!courtney    May  5 12:38:00 1983

"GOOD GRIEF"... Tom Craver is out of touch with reality!!!!!

            NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE SPECIAL!!!!!!!!!!

Only since the advent of nuclear weapons have humankind had the capability to

       TOTALLY ELIMINATE ALL TERRESTRIAL HIGHER LIFE FORMS!!!

WHO CARES if it is "JUST" to retaliate to a nuclear first strike with a
nuclear missile...  IT WON'T MATTER WHETHER IT IS JUST OR NOT, because if
we respond to a strike with another strike, WHERE WILL IT END... Only when
we have decimated each other and

          MADE THE PLANET UNLIVIBLE BY ANY IMAGINABLE STANDARD.

If less than half of the EXISTING nuclear warheads were detonated, the effect
on the atmospheric ozone would be ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING!  Humans would have
to go outside wearing sunglasses to keep the UV radiation from making them
go blind....  BUT THAT WON'T MATTER, because there won't be anything left
worth seeing.  Would YOU be willing to go into the wilderness and put
sunglasses on all the wild animals?  They DEPEND on vision to live, so they
would DIE.  And the INSECTS... BEES and other insects would go blind and die,
leaving most plants with NO WAY TO POLINATE AND REPRODUCE.  With only a few
wind polinated plants and a very few simple organisms able to reproduce,
terrestrial life go into a tailspin for a long time.

 ANY REMAINING HUMANS WOULD NOT HAVE A PLANET WHICH COULD SUPPORT THEM!!!

So, for any of you foolish enough to think nuclear weapons are not special,

               YOU'RE DEAD WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!

	(Comparing nukes with handguns... GOOD GRIEF!!!)



           Looking for RATIONAL discussion of the nuclear weapons issue,

                      Courtney Loomis
                        hplabs!hp-pcd!courtney