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To: Ilaine who wrote (131238)5/3/2004 10:04:24 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<Will it all go away if Al Qaeda detonates a bomb in Manhattan, or Capitol Hill? Will we slide all the way back to wearing skins and killing our dinner with chipped rocks? >

I think, like you, that we won't slide all the way back [the survivors anyway]. Or even very far.

But it would be much better to avoid such catastrophe. Warren Buffett, who has some wisdom and evident worldly success, thinks that nuclear attack on the USA is a matter of when, not if. So it's not a weirdo proposition.

Mq



To: Ilaine who wrote (131238)5/4/2004 12:06:52 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I don't know about "thinkable" but the parents of a friend and colleague of mine lived one mile from the epicenter at Hiroshima and were saved by the intervention of a small hill. They later became Americans.

They taught us that nuclear war is thinkable, and survivable.


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