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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: We need the arms race
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:41:26 EST
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>   30 years may be a big part of your life but it is a very,very small part  
>of human history. Imagine what the world would be like if the bomb were
>invented 20 or 30 years earlier. The USA and USSR probably will not press the
>button simply because we both have more to lose than gain, but there are many
>smaller countries who would.

That is precisely what worries me; that some small country with nothing to lose
will push it, and that the resulting escalation will result in all out nuclear
war.

Sean