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Ayn Rand's Utopia
On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 2:49:02 AM UTC-6, Mike Collins wrote:
I also supported nuclear weapons but I certainly wasn't untroubled. You were in North America with a 30 minute warning. In the UK that was a 4 minute warning. Vulcan bomber pilots whose function was NATO first response wore an eyepatch so that if they lost eyesight due to a nearby nuclear explosion they would still be able to fly using the other eye. Many people in neutral democratic countries would also have died. The end result of nuclear war would be the destruction of the Northern Hemisphere and the ascendancy of the less democratic Southern hemisphere probably led by South American countries. But none of this is the fault of the decision of the United States to resist the Soviet Union by having a nuclear deterrent. All of it was a consequence of the Soviet Union gaining possession of nuclear weapons, and seeking world domination. What can't be changed has to be responded to as best one can. Communist domination of the world would have been a nightmare of the same nature as Nazi domination of the world. John Savard |
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