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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Rob wrote:

> At  12/9/2005 08:22 AM,Bill Jones wrote:
>  
>
> >  I mean, we've lived for years now knowing
> > that thanks to the blunders of '45, other nations' nuclear weapons are
> > aimed at us by the thousands.
> >    
>
> From what I've heard the guys who were going to have to invade Japan 
> thought the bombing was a good idea & others were working on 
> splitting the atom at the time. Technology is a lot like Pandora's Box.
>
>
>  
I never said the blunder was in using it.  I can't answer that.  But it 
was definitely a blunder to sit idly by and allow the Soviets, followed 
by the Chinese, to acquire nuclear weapons.

> > But isn't it a little crazy to treat the Germans and Japanese like
> > children who can't manage their only armies?  It's a different world now.
> >    
>
> How's the world different? Smaller maybe?
> FWIW there are still people around who remember what Japan & Germany 
> did in the years between 1900 and 1945, people who still have 
> nightmares over it.
>
>  
Does anyone seriously imagine that the Japanese are going to attack 
anywhere on the mainland, or that the Germans might invade France again?

What's different is that a county's wealth is no longer proportional to 
its territory, as in the traditional sense.

Bill