From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!sher Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: Soviet Nuclear Stupidity Article-I.D.: rocheste.417 Posted: Sun Jan 16 01:11:07 1983 Received: Tue Jan 18 08:56:21 1983 References: inuxd.228 To continue a discussion that probably should be in net.politics but what the hell, the main reason that US newsmen cover American nuclear mishaps is that if the reactor several miles north of New York City blows up, endangering the entire 2*10**7+ people in the metropolitan area, my mother father sister brother and various other relatives and friends will be endangered. If all the reactors in Russia blow up simultaneously many million Russians will be endangered. Now which possibility is more important to me? =David Sher (oftimes ai project)