> Just wondering, what do you think of this argument in favor of the atomic
> bomb? At the start of this century the "civilized" world was enduring a
> world war in which tens of millions of people were slaughtered about once
> every generation, as those glory-hog leaders could safely relax in wood-
> paneled rooms, sipping port and smoking cigars; but after Szilard,
> Oppenheimer and Fuchs, the glorious leaders would no longer be the last
> to die in the wars they cooked up but the very first. Confronted with
> their own quick death on the new front lines, suddenly these leaders were
> no more eager "to turn as swimmers into cleanness leaping" than the
> average combat-experienced PFC had ever been.
Oooohh, I _like_ that idea. It's nasty. I like it a lot.