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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
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Subject: Re: Re: We need the arms race (well, not quite...)
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Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 10:24:34 EST
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In article <290@enmasse.UUCP> mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) writes:
>There simply is no relationship between nuclear weapons and any
>previous weapons technology, historical arguments are irrelevant.

Oh.  Aren't all the weapons man has made in his short history been
built for the purpose of killing? (usually killing people).

>> No, but our record is pretty damn good.  Think back and figure out
>> when was the last time the world had fourty years without a major war
>> (ie a confrontation of the world powers).

>But if you insist, Pax Britanica- from the end of the Napoleanic era
>until WWI. The point is that just because we have avoided global
>thermonuclear warfare so far is no reason to believe that we will
>continue to do so in the future.

Please see my previous article.  Pax Britannica is a big fallacy.

			\tom haapanen
			watmath!watdcsu!haapanen

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