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From: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Call for action on an Alternative to the Nuclear Dilemma
Message-ID: <320@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Dec-85 06:18:27 EST
Article-I.D.: tekigm2.320
Posted: Sat Dec 21 06:18:27 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Dec-85 04:39:08 EST
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Reply-To: timothym@tekigm2 D Margeson.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
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Summary: A cry for reason....

In article <1928@psuvax1.UUCP> ghost@psuvax1.UUCP (Anonymous) writes:
>>
>>               A CALL TO END THE THREAT OF WAR
>>
>>   This statement has been endorsed by Pope John Paul II, the Sec. Ge., etc.
>> Social Responsibility and by 79 Nobel Laureates.
>>
>>   We ask that you join us in this call to end the threat of war by endorsing
>> the principles of the Delhi Declaration:
>>
>>       Let us raise our voices together in a call to end war.
>
>     Only very naive people can think that any group of people (including the
>Pope, Congressman, Physicians, ...) can end war by raising their voices.  As
>long as there is disagreement among the nations that have the power to destroy
> ........ etc........
>a nuclear war, but, as long as there are nuclear weopons pointed at us, let's
>give the people whose finger is on the trigger a reason for not firing the
>first shot!

Why do we want to spend our time trying to defend against insurmountable odds?

So we block off 90% of the incoming Soviet missile barrage, what do you think
the remaining 500 megatons of nuclear devices will do to our homes?

How do you suppose to protect the United States from the fallout from the
missiles destroyed on reentry? There will be several thousand pounds of raw
U-235 and U-238 unleased into the atmosphere along with many other heavy 
elements resulting from the explosions of the ACBM's, etc.

Then, after you have figured what to do with the raw dust, how are we to deal
with the 1000 megatons worth of yield we will deliver to the U.S.S.R. ( of
course I assume the same 90% in atmosphere destruction of our missiles pointed
at our enemies in Russia). And the eight thousand pounds of dirty elements
so neatly deployed into the outer atmosphere, so as to filter down to our
breathable air over the following three years? What do you suggest? Gas masks?

Let's be realistic for a moment.... Why is is so terrible to think that we as
human beings, the most intelligent life on this planet ( I am guessing here ),
can not work together and find resonable and acceptable solutions to our very
problems that we exhaust our every effort to find ways of killing ourselves
for the satisfaction of knowing we are taking them with us when we go.

Please, for our own sakes, why can't we at least give peace a chance? 

I am sure that our (read your's and my counterparts in our 'ENEMY' countries)
fellow peoples in this world have no more desire to commit suicide than you 
or I.

As I stated in another article, it won't be the sane people of this planet
that start the conflagration, it will be the little guy next door, setting 
off one little device, with the major powers placing the blame on each other.

Again, please, I beg of you all. Try to understand one another, and do not make
the needless assumptions that lead to unwarranted resentment against those you
know nothing of. Think of the wisdom we as a people possess, and try not to
destroy what we prize so much.

Thank you,


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Tim Margeson (206)253-5240
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