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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: World War III
Message-ID: <262@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 12:19:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 31 12:19:17 1985
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> I have no idea WHY you would want to kill other people because of some stupid
> argument a president started 10 years ago. There is really no good excuse to
> have nuckear weapons in the first place.
>
> If you asked the question "Why do you have nuclear weapons"
> You might get a response:
> "They had them first"
> or maybe
> "There number exceedes our amount by far..."
> What sort of reasons are those???
> When do you think it (World WAR III) will happen, if ever??
...
> 			Mat Pirz

*Whether or not* nukes are a good idea in the modern world (on the face of
it, they are not), those reasons for not having them are severely lacking.
Would you, for example, hold this philosophy about weapons in general if
you were a Pole in 1939?  In fact, the Britons and the French had precisely
this philosophy in 1939, which is why they didn't help the Poles much in
that year.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

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