On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:16:42 -0700, Tim May
wrote:
In article , Bert Robbins
wrote:
What? Wingers? We are closer to the actual use of a nuke now than we ever
were back in the '70's.
Only a piddly nuke, not the citybusters targetted by the hundreds
against the other side that we once had.
So what if some freedom fighters use a 50 KT bomb against Paris or
Chicago?...the world will go on. Zero chance of the widespread forest
fires (essentially the ignition of the northern hemisphere's great
forests) needed for the Carl Sagan/Helen Caldicott "nuclear winter"
scenario.
You need to get educated about magnitudes, probability, etc.
--Tim May
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