Dresden might as well have been a nuclear blast. I appreciate your post on proved/proven. > [Original Message] > From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2/1/2006 11:34:34 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: What we can do to knock out Iran's nuclear capability? > > Lawrence Helm wrote: > > > Au contraire, someone did force us to develop atomic weapons. We learned > > that the Germans were developing them and we were committed to defeating > > Fascism. It wasn't a wise policy to use inferior weapons against the > > Germans. The Poles rode horses against their tanks -- briefly. We were > > forced by our resolve to defeat Germany's war effort to match them weapon > > for weapon, ergo, the Manhattan Project. > > Not so ergo fast, Lawrence. I take it you haven't read my post about > this. An Erikean speculation would be whether we would ever have dropped > an atomic bomb in Europe. > > Robert Paul > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html