Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!haapanen From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: We need the arms race (well, not quite...) Message-ID: <846@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 10:24:34 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.846 Posted: Sat Jan 19 10:24:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 10:48:06 EST References: <734@loral.UUCP> <43000005@rna.UUCP> <825@watdcsu.UUCP> <290@enmasse.UUCP> Reply-To: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 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 "All the usual disclaimers apply...