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Subject: About time there was a brawl - limited nuclear war
Message-ID: <7413@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 00:09:01 EST
Article-I.D.: eddie.7413
Posted: Sun Nov 15 00:09:01 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Nov-87 03:32:51 EST
Reply-To: oaf@eddie.MIT.EDU (you oafish oaf)
Organization: MIT communal cemetery
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Summary: blow up two cities while the real men duke it out

>>	 * Yes, I know that not *all* Texans are pompous, arrogant
>>	shitheads.  You wouldn't know it by reading the net, though.

>	** Yes, I know that not *all* Berzerkeleyoids are pompous,
>	arrogant shitheads. You wouldn't know it by reading
>	<CENSORED>'s postings, though.

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    About time we saw a little action around here!  All this strutting
and bragging are fun to watch, but the novelty wears thin fast.  Okay,
Messrs. Lewis and Maynard, go out there and shoot the foof out of each
other.  Come back with your shields or on them, or not at all.
    (I'm jealous.  All I ever found through computers was love, sex,
and people who buy me dinner...)

    While we wait for those gentlemen to settle their business by pro-
jecting small pieces of lead at each other, here's my suggestion.  The
problem with nuclear war, as with the net, is that everyone talks but
nobody does anything about it.  We can't sign a traty with the Soviets
and retual our intellectual integrity unless we know the effects of
nuclear war firsthand.
    Let's make a deal with the Russkies (yeh, I know it's "So-vee-ets"
and not Great Russians...) that we each pick two cities on the other
guy's turf and surprise-bomb it one day.  One city should be a loser
just ripe for megaton-range urban renewal, the other should be one
we'd rather not lose.  I recommend something like Gary (Ind.) and San
Francisco in the US, maybe Kuibyshev and Odessa in the USSR.  Then we
can send in news-teams, medical staff, damage assessors, military
planners, representatives from all branches of the gummit, advertising
executives and suchlike, and they can tell us whether it's a fun idea
to get nuked or maybe we should instead start getting serious about
arms control.  More and better information - RAH!

    Let's get that experimental data, gang.  What say?
-- 
Oded A. Feingold          36 Columbia Rd.,        Medford, Mass. 02155
{allegra|ihnp4!mit-eddie}!mit-vax!oaf  OAF@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU  617-395-8895