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Subject: Re: Yea for the BOMB!!!
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 00:38:02 EDT
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> ********  HAPPY FORTY BIRTHDAY - BOMB !!  MANY MORE!  **********
> 
> You've kept us safe from world war for lo these forty years. 
> (could you have done that if only 'they' had you?)

Well, now somebody's got to post the lyrics to Tom Lehrer's great
song about the Multi-Lateral Nuclear Force.  Here's the only one
I remember:

    Who cares that the Germans have nuclear warheads?
    England says no, but they all are soreheads.
    I say a bygone should be a bygone--
    Let's make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon.

> Think of the millions who did not die or have to live in chains
> because of you.  Boon to all mankind!  Gift of God.

This lends a whole new meaning to the song "Praise the Lord and
Pass the Ammunition."  The Lord *IS* the ammunition (in nomine
Patris et Filis et Spiritu Rambo...)  Yes--I *see the light*  Ooops,
it was just the tracer rounds.

> And now we have the President's space defense!!  PAX AMERICANA!!!

Gee, that's just what the French thought about the Maginot Line.
Although, come to think of it, a very good WW II analogy would be the
English radar network.  This was a giant technological advance,
a substantial factor in the outcome of the Battle of Britain, and
by all accounts an enormously successful defense system.  Sure, a
few German bombers got through, but it's been estimated that radar's
early warnings reduced the load that fell on England by as much as 20%.
Unlike Star Wars, though, the overwhelming scientific opinion about
that radar defense was that it (a) had a realistic objective, (b) could
be built, and (c) would work.
 
> Regards,
> Ken Arndt

Sweet dreams, Ken, you wonderful guy.
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