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To: Father Terrence who wrote (3995)	5/31/2006 9:07:12 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 4006

Let me apologize for the tone of that other post. And maybe put up some of your side of the story. After WW2 the US was THE superpower- -only we had The Bomb. This made Iosef Ivanovivich Stalin rather nervous. His spies soon corrected matters for him, though, and he exploded an atomic weapon. This made American leaders nervous in turn. They developed the hydrogen bomb, which the Soviets soon also copied. At wars end, neither side had a mens of delivering a bomb from its own territory to the others territory. They got busy on that, first developing transcontinental bombers, the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs- -those things in those siloes and aboard those nuclear subs). It can be claimed quite credibly that moral values - Western refusal to accept Communism and Russian refusal to accept capitalism- -drove political ideals that drove technological development. It's all one big ball of wax. What it comes down to are both are human activities. We're a restless and curious lot and both characteristics often get us into trouble. :-)

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