Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: World War III Message-ID: <471@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 11:37:25 EST Article-I.D.: whuxl.471 Posted: Wed Feb 6 11:37:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 00:54:47 EST References: <3329@alice.UUCP> <262@talcott.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs Lines: 25 > > 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.........