>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Wasn't it Krushchev who said that in a nuclear war the living would
>> envy the dead?
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>Yes -- and he was right. But he didn't say (because history had already
>proven otherwise -- Hiroshima & Nagasaki) that one or two nuclear
>explosions would have that result. Were full scale nuclear war to break
>out I too would rather die sooner than later. But I don't imagine the
>citizens of Tokyo or other parts of Japan felt like that -- and neither
>would the rest of the U.S. if a single nuclear weapon went off in a
>single city.
That would not be where it ended. Could you imagine the U.S. after that happened? Could you imagine what the U.S. would do in retaliation?
Doug