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From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
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Subject: Re: Re: We need the arms race (well, not quite...)
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 09:34:22 EST
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> Yes, BUT!  The arms races have always existed.  Take a look at Europe
> in the 1930's, or at just about any time in history.  It just that now
> we've got bigger and better sling and rocks to play with.

There simply is no relationship between nuclear weapons and any
previous weapons technology, historical arguments are irrelevant.

> 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.
> 
> P.S. The genetive form of the pronoun 'they' is 'their', not 'thier'.

Big deal.