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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: PWhat if They Threw a War... - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 4-Dec-83 23:01:10 EST
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uokvax!rigney    Dec  3 10:10:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.politics / csd1!condict /  7:14 pm  Nov 30, 1983 */
building something that is totally useless (as are nuclear weapons until they
are used).
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Actually, nuclear weapons are only useless when the time comes to
use them.  If they perform their function correctly, they'll
never be used.  As long as they're not used, they're working.
To say they are therefore worthless is to miss the point.

I agree that it would certainly be better to expend the resources
on something else, if we can.  Especially the space program -
the only thing the government has ever done that has returned more
than it cost.

	Carl
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