From: "Robert Comer" 

>Sorta like Pakistan and India, had they not been nuclear powers they
>most certainly would have escalated the war?

Probably so. (they might not be done yet though.)

> somehow that line of thought doesn't make me feel any safer.

Me neither.

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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adam{at}NOSPAMsoftfab.com> wrote in message
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>
> > > That was just an ounce or two. Take a 5gal bucket full of the same
> power,
> > > sprinkle it out of a plane at 1000 ft above a major city, you just
> created
> > > chernobyl. There is no way to contain it or to clean it up, you just
> close
> > > off the area and keep people out.
> > >
> >
> > Nope coz unless it's in small dust then it ain't getting into the lungs
in
> > which case the worst you have is nasty black patches on your hands.
>
> I did say a 5gal bucket of the same power didn't I? I realize it has to be
a
> dangerous substance to have the effect, if it's not in a dangerous form
then
> it won't do much of anything.
>
> > Not individual suicidal. Mass suicidal. Global suicidal. e.g. imagine an
> > engineered smallpox. That's a different kettle of fish entirely. Even
> worse
> > imagine a GM flu.
>
> Sort of like starting a nuclear war huh?  Perhaps you believe the world
> would be a better place if all countries had nukes because then they would
> all have to act responsibly and not blow up the world by starting a nuke
> war? Sorta like Pakistan and India, had they not been nuclear powers they
> most certainly would have escalated the war?
>
> somehow that line of thought doesn't make me feel any safer.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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