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From: andree@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Unilateral disarmament? - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 24-Dec-83 22:44:30 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 24 22:44:30 1983
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uokvax!andree    Dec 22 18:26:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.politics / tty3b!mjk /  9:49 pm  Dec 19, 1983 */
..allegra!rlgvax!plunkett writes:

	"The failure to apply nuclear weapons
	against the advancing Soviet forces would surely result in yet another
	wholesale destruction of Europe and its peoples."

How's that again?
/* ---------- */

Seems straightforward to me. A conventional war in western europe now
would make WW II look like a picnic. Of course, it's not at all clear
that nuking the advancing soviet forces would be produce much better
results.

As a side note, the last time I looked, the Soviets didn't recognize
such things as `tactical nukes'. As far as they were concerned, a
nuke is a nuke is a nuke, and once one is thrown, the cat is out of
the bag, and it's time to start the mass urban renewals.

	<mike