Does the prospect of nuclear disaster still frighten anyone these days?

[JuliaL]

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The notion the Edward teller was the lone traitor from the generally peace loving scientifi community to defect to the nuclear loony camp is not quite true. Edward teller was far from the only scientific luminary who advocated a nuclear Pearl harbor against the USSR and believed killing most of the innocent civil population of the communist world in a sneak attack was not morally wrong, and was a small price to pay for achieving victory for the cause of "freedom".

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One often repeated quote from another highly influential scientist is "if you say bomb communist russia tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say bomb russia by noon, I say why not before breakfast?"

Is that sort of thinking unknown today? Or is it just limited to people I don't know?
They had to think completely differently than I do. I know I think differently from most of the American public. At least I always vote for losers.
I have to believe there was something intrinsically different in the "greatest" generation. I wish I knew what it was. I think a love for nuclear war is really a holdout from a time when total war was 'winnable' and may even date from a time when war was waged by farmers with essentially the same implements that they were using on the farm; big knives, sticks and rocks. Not so long ago it made romantic sense to have a local champion to keep the peace so the rest of the community could grow food and only worry about dying of starvation before spring.