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From: sr@u1100a.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Soviet Reaction to Pershings
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 16:31:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 16:31:48 1983
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HOW much of this can you listen too before cracking????
I'm at this point now:
Let's see that everyone gets the bomb. Naturally, a few are bound to go off.
But thats okay, because then everyone will know how horrific it really is
(besides the Japanese). Maybe some city in the US will volunteer to be a
target, as some kind of gesture of atonement on the part of the whole
country. We could launch a missile from Oklahoma, it could circle the
globe, people in various places could be forewarned about when and in
which part of the sky it would pass. There could be contests for amateur
astronomers. Net-readers could post notices about the forthcoming event.
If it were aimed at, say, Newark, NJ, I could set up a lawn chair in my
yard and watch the mushroom cloud with my family and neighbors ( for
about 1 millisecond ).

Afterwards, most of the long term effects would be limited to a small number
of people ( 10-20 million unless the winds blow the wrong way, but that
doesn't happen ). The catastrophic end to the age of mammals would not take
place, and scientists could arrange to make careful measurements- perhaps
something like the International Geophysics Year could be arranged