Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: World War III Message-ID: <273@talcott.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:07:35 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.273 Posted: Thu Feb 7 12:07:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:49:30 EST References: <3329@alice.UUCP> <262@talcott.UUCP> <471@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 18 > > *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! --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk