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To: Condor who wrote (15109)	12/30/2001 12:34:43 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (4) of 281500

China, Russia and the US state that the first country to deploy a nuclear device will have their parliamentary centre "cruised" to oblivion at some unannounced moment when it will create the most impressive vapourization of offending politicians. Nuclear devices are declared globally unacceptable. On the surface, I agree, it sounds like a great idea. Trouble is a nuclear war has a dynamic far larger then humans can control. Politicians cannot control it for sure. We designed it that way. The Western nuclear arsenal has been designed to withstand a "nuclear pulse" i.e the warheads still deliver even though we have been already vapourized. It would take just one idiot to mash the launch button and the human race is toast. No big deal, in one million years (a blink of the eye in geological terms) there would be no sign left that we even existed. Seemingly Castro completely lost it during the Cuban crisis, much to Kruschev's disgust, and wanted to launch nuke's against the USA when he realized Kennedy was winning. Unfortunately there are idiots out there with the self importance to do such a thing. We need to design our defences to rule those guys out. Great piece in the Sunday Telegraph about Leslie E Robertson who was the structural engineer who designed the World Trade Centre. Can't get the link yet, remind me if I forget to post it. He says "the collapse of the Twin Towers was his responsibility". I can tell straight away that guy is almost certainly a good engineer. Haven't even read the article yet. Unfortunately this country has some structural engineers who are near useless. Big fancy names too, whose structures dont even stand up to the force of gravity. edit (a little quote I just read) At the National Council of Structural Engineers Assoc. Oct 5th....On being asked by an engineer in the audience, "Is there anything you wish you had done differently in the design of the building?", Robertson broke down and wept at the lectern. Yep, you guys have a real engineer there, god bless him.

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