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To: tejek who wrote (175983)	10/9/2003 12:39:51 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1578905

Those nukes were also much smaller than present day nukes. Not all of them. Some where much larger then most present day nukes. "1961 January-July, Kennedy accelerates U.S. nuclear weapons deployments and East-West relations deteriorate over the Berlin crisis. August, resumption of Soviet nuclear tests followed by resumption of U.S. testing in September. October 30, Soviet Union conducts largest nuclear test explosion ever, a 58 megaton atmospheric blast." clw.org (A typical American strategic nuke is about 1/3 of a megaton, nukes used by minor nuclear powers would likely be even smaller) "If the war" means there had been a war by definition. If you say "If the war" you assume a war unless you say something like "if the war didn't happen". Are you having fun playing? I'm completely serious. To me it seems to be you that are playing in order to avoid facing up to the error in your argument. Edit - For the same reason Russia and the US never attacked each other. "Russia and the US had a whole lot of deployed and ready weapons." Yes, and it acted as a deterrent. Is that not right? That was my point. You where the ones arguing not to deploy weapons, saying that "I see a missile defense as a deterrent to other nations attacking us, and not something we actually deploy." The deployed weapons acted as a deterrent. Weapons that are not deployed are much less effective in that role. Tim