From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 10:12:28 MDT
"Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
> Suppose that I suddenly found myself in the year 1936 about
> fifty miles outside Berlin, and I had in my hand a remote
> control switch that would detonate a Hiroshima-sized device
> in the capital of Germany, and that I knew that this would
> be my only chance to kill Hitler and his henchmen.
> I would scarcely hesitate, even though it would mean the
> immediate deaths of 100,000 people.
In 1936 you would know that Hitler was a very bad person but the trouble is
you would not know that very soon he would cause the death of 30 million
people; nor in 1936 would you know if incinerating the German capital would
lead to something even worse than Hitler by demonstrating to the world
9 years early that nuclear weapons are possible and practical. Even today I
don't know.
As for the North Korea nuclear weapons situation, yes it is very serious,
but I just don't see a military solution. For one thing it's too late, they
already have the bomb, but even with just conventional weapons a new Korean
war would be the biggest bloodbath since World War 2. It is estimated that
North Korea has the ability to fire 10,000 heavy artillery shells into
Seoul, a city of 10 million people, every 20 seconds.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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