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From: saquigley@watdaisy.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: addendum to my flame
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Date: Sun, 15-Jan-84 17:58:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 15 17:58:02 1984
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Another fact showing how self-centered americans are is the furor and controver-
sy that surrounded this whole TDA story.  At the same time as TDA was being 
released BBC had acquired rights to a more horrifying documentary of the effects
of nuclear war: footings on Hiroshima.  It seems like the American stations
has the correct insight to show TDA rather than the other.  They assumed rightly
that the american public would be more horrified at seeing a fictionalised
version of what would happen to them rather than the actual footings of what had
REALLY happened to other people, even if the latter was actually more horrible.  
Another thing which I find interesting is that there hasn't really been a sense
of guilt in America about either the bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, like
there has been in West Germany about the holocaust.  I find this very frighte-
ning, because I think that it shows that this could happen again without the
american public getting too concerned about it.  (As long as no americans died
in the process).  Now Hiroshima can be defended intellectually by jugling
numbers judiciously, but there is no way that Nagasaki can.  Yet, nobody really
cares or worries about it.  I think this reflects that there is definitely
something very wrong with the collective american psyche.

					Sophie Quigley