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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/11/18/we-must-start-thinking-again-about-the-unthinkable/>
"For those titillated by Strangelovian fantasies of nuclear apocalypse,
the early 1980s were a golden age. That was the height of the Cold War,
when nuclear arms and rhetoric escalated, and President Ronald Reagan
envisioned a space-based anti-missile “shield”—promptly dubbed “Star
Wars” by skeptics—that could thwart attacks by the “Evil Empire,” also
known as the Soviet Union."
People don't think about them as much any more, but nuclear weapons are
still a concern.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
