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From: tim@isrnix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Unilateral disarmament? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 22:28:42 EST
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isrnix!tim    Dec 17 10:12:00 1983

What would the United States do if the USSR unilaterally disarmed itself
of nuclear weapons?  Probably the same thing we did (fortunately!) when
we had the capability to deliver nuclear bombs to the Soviet Union when
they did not in the 50's -namely nothing. Of course there were military
men urging a first strike but they were not heeded.  What good would
it do us or anybody to see the Soviet Union a heap of ashes and radioactive
wastes? What good would it do to plunge the world's climate into a
Nuclear Winter?  
If there was ever any purpose in War, there is none now.
  
tim sevener
Indiana University, Bloomington
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