Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!hasmed!qusavx!ukma!sean From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: We need the arms race Message-ID: <514@ukma.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:41:26 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.514 Posted: Thu Jan 17 13:41:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 04:24:30 EST References: <734@loral.UUCP>, <4000030@hp-pcd.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences Lines: 11 > 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