From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Douglas Hofstadter & Nuclear War Article-I.D.: ihuxr.330 Posted: Tue Feb 15 09:31:35 1983 Received: Thu Feb 17 19:23:41 1983 Reply-To: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) I wrote a letter to Douglas Hofstadter c/o Scientific American concerning an item of recreational computation. In reply I received, to my surprise, a book entitled "Nuclear War: What's in it for you?" by "Ground Zero". A mimeographed sheet acccompanied it, explaining his purpose, which was generally to rouse people out of apathy and fatalism about this all important issue. Incidentally, he did write a personal acknowledgment of my letter on the sheet. I read the book, and after a brief surge of adrenalin I put my head back in the sand. I assume I'm aiding his cause by informing the net of this concern of his. Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew