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Subject: Re: Make the rich pay? - no, the middle class, as usual.
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Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 00:49:29 EST
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In article <2564@hcrvx2.UUCP> jimr@hcr.UUCP (Jim Robinson) writes:
>And given that
>it is just that, is there anyone out there who can explain why it is to
>our advantage to let the other side have the ability to nuke us into
>oblivion secure in the knowledge that we cannot retaliate? 

We can't retaliate with nuclear weapons anyway.  Once a nuclear exchange
starts, the world loses.

Some people who want to get rid of the nukes think that the risk of an
accidental exchange is worse than the risk of an unprovoked one.
-- 
        -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo