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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Day After, Nuclear Arms - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 24-Nov-83 22:49:13 EST
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uokvax!rigney    Nov 23 03:39:00 1983

While the matchstick analogy is an over-simplification 
(something Sagan is very good at), I find it interesting to
use it as well to discuss the various defense schemes - these
are fire extinguishers.  You don't know that a fire extinguisher
would actually save you in a gas-soaked room, but it's certainly
better to have than another 20 matches, or a bic lighter.

A better alternative is to drain the gasoline in the room, or
remove the oxygen; then the matches don't matter, do they?  As
Kissinger said, weapons don't cause wars, tensions and conflicting
national interests do.

	Hiding a Hafla 35L behind the matches,

			Carl
			..!ctvax!uokvax!rigney