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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: World War III
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 11:37:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 11:37:25 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.
> 			Greg Kuperberg
> 		     harvard!talcott!gjk
 
Yes, I'm sure the Poles would have been glad to have a nuclear war
in Europe.........