Editor:
When the atomic bomb came on the scene, we immediately gave the worst invention ever conceived to a bunch of sociopaths including the Dulles brothers in America and Stalin in Russia. Even more sociopaths, including Israel, Pakistan, and North Korea have the bomb now. All we need is a suicidal sociopath like Hitler to finally bring the curtain down. I thought Bush, Cheney, Putin or Israel might win the suicidal sociopath race this time.
It takes between 50 to 100 nuclear bursts to kick off a nuclear Winter (50 degrees below zero for 100 years). Voila! At last a nuclear exchange will have solved all our resources, population, and economic problems. When has mankind ever seriously dealt with any sociopath without substituting one for another. The truth is that we just love our liars, bullies, and crooks.
When nukes arrived on the scene, no thinking person ever thought we would last another sixty years. So far, nothing less than a miracle has occurred. We are still here today largely due to sheer dumb luck.
John Hanks
Laramie, Wyo.
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Letter to the Editor: Nuclear weapons still pose a threat
Posted by
Meg Lanker
on 8.02.2009
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