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From: courtney@hp-pcd.UUCP
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Subject: Re: BTL Takes the Lead - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 03:29:57 EST
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hp-pcd!courtney    Nov 17 08:54:00 1983

What the response by "wetcw" misses is the fact that the ecosphere that we
depend on for life itself is unlikely to survive a detonation of between a
tenth and a half of the CURRENTLY EXISTING nuclear weapons.  Thus whether
you count the explosions as they knock out weapon silos or as the knock out
cities, THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF TODAY'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS LONG PAST
OVERKILL!!!  So any further development/deployment only serves to destabilize
the relations between world STUPOR-POWERS.

Missile deployment in Western Europe stikes me to be chillingly similar to the
events that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is the closest the world
has ever come to World War III.

Courtney Loomis