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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived
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To: jlallen who wrote (2378)2/18/2002 12:28:29 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
There is no way of calculating so far in advance what would happen, especially if they refused to capitulate on the basis of Hiroshima sized blasts. Remember, Hiroshima and Nagasaki involved less than 200,000 fatalities. If we had to take out Shanghai to get capitulation, that would probably involve a couple of million, and it quickly adds up. Then, even with capitulation, we would have had to guarantee relative stability and prosperity, otherwise millions would die in a return to warlordism and abject poverty, lack of medical attention and starvation. We also had to guarantee that the revulsion of the American public would not produce civil disturbance in this country, or revulsion among our allies would not cause a coalition to be mounted against us. So it is too speculative to be the basis for engaging in thermonuclear war.......
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