Re: [OT] I hate being American
From: Rick Thompson (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/20/05
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:53:11 +0000
On Thu, 20 Jan 05 11:48:04 GMT, jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>In article <357sc5F4guah4U2@individual.net>,
> "robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:
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>>John Larkin wrote:
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>>> Same thing that's kept the UK from using its nukes?
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>>Mutual Assuree Destruction is what kept WWW3 from happening while the
>>Soviet Union still stood.
>
>More importantly, the Russians believed that the West
>would retaliate immediately with lots of nukes if they
>ever tried it. The West tried to disspell this belief
>in the late 70s with the philosophy that talking at
>the Russians would keep them from attacking. This was
>only 25 years ago and we're back to to bad philosophy
>again.
Can there really be people in 8 unrelated groups interested in reading
this stuff?
And do you have any evidence at all that the Russians wanted to nuke
anybody?
AFAIK, the only time in the last 55 years when this was seriously
considered was when MacArthur wanted to nuke the Chinese; and I don't
recall that he was a Russian.
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