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From: murray@t4test.UUCP (Murray Lane)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Space Station
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 13:36:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 30 13:36:28 1984
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>	What gives nuclear weapons such a terrible prospect in our minds?
>	Surely it is not the simple magnitude of their destructiveness; rather
>	it is their genocidal properties which drives our horror of them.  

	This properly belongs in net.politics, but here goes anyway.
I heartily disagree with the above statement. Although the prospect of
genocide certainly is factor, the main thing that makes nuclear weapons
so terrible is that for the first time non-soldiers can be killed with
no chance of getting out of the destructive area. In WWII, we Americans
were able to sit in our nice safe homes thousands of miles from the
destruction. Only the soldiers had to die. Even in Europe, you could send
your children out to the countryside where their chance of survival was good.
With nuclear weapons, there is no safe place, and even if there was, there
will not be enough warning for you to get there. THAT is what makes nuclear
weapons so scary.

					Murray at Intel @ t4test

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