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From: phl@drusd.UUCP (LavettePH)
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Subject: re: Nuclear War Casualties
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 17:38:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 17:38:32 1984
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       "It were indeed to be wished that our art had been less in-
	geneous, in contriving means destructive to mankind;  we
	mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the
	ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns.  But
	as men have always been bent on seeking each other's des-
	truction by continual wars; and as force, when brought
	against us, can only be repelled by force; the chief sup-
	port of war, must, after money, be now sought in chemistry.
	...God grant that mortal men may not be so ingenious at
	their own cost, as to pervert a profitable science any
	longer to such horrible uses."

					- Boerhaave, "A New Method of Chemistry"
					  Leiden, 1732
					  (Referring to Berthold Schwarz's exp-
					   eriments with black powder ca. 1250)



        [Then human race was destroyed when].."intelligent, educated 
	men decided they could maintain the peace by building weapons
	whose power they could not comprehend and whose use they could
	not cdontrol."

					- Shute, "On the Beach", ca 1950
					  (Misquoted, but the sense is there)