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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: World War III
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:07:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 12:07:35 1985
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> > *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.........

Oh, you're completely right.  The Poles, French, and British should have
thrown all of their arms into the ocean, and surely the Germans would have
been quick to follow!
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk