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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (30039)	5/18/2002 9:05:29 PM
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I will all my life be sad that the world I'm handing my offspring is still such a barbarous place I believe our world is a very much better place now than it was in 1989. This point of view has to do with BigBull's #reply-17465070 The Cold War is over since the Soviet Union had the grace and greatness of dissolving in peace. During MAD times nuclearfiles.org a successful application of a small percentage of the available nuclear warheads would have killed a majority of mankind immediately and the rest a few weeks or months later. This threat is mostly gone. What we experience since 9-11 is the confrontation with some extremists. Yes, there have been a lot of terror victims and it is likely that there will be more but currently I see no danger of a strategic challenge for the survival of mankind. The Islamofascists will lose, one way or the other, in one to two decades they will be history. In the meantime the revolution of IT, bio-, nano- et al.-technology continues, and the means to cure all the petty problems of us lowly mortals will improve considerably. The ISS will grow (don't remember a link of it here, so here's one for the fun of it: spaceflight.nasa.gov ), and maybe your daughter will be married to the UN President who has just proposed a manned space flight to Mars. news.bbc.co.uk marssociety.org Yes, we here on FADG are hunting for the trouble spots in world affairs. Being exposed to and discussing a lot of tragedies and insanities can be psychologically challenging but I try to not forget the big picture. Somebody must do the job - if not us, who else :)? And now I'll take another bite from the apple made in NZ. jerzyboyz.com jj@imagine.de