At 03:04 PM 9/17/01, you wrote:
>Ticia wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I repeat - there's nothing
> > > particularly special about dying in a nuclear explosion.
> >
> > True, if at the center of the attack you'd die right way. Dead is dead.
> >
> > But what about the perifery? The thousands of people and the entire
> > ecosystem that die slow deaths due to radiation fallout, cancer, and
> > gruesomely mutated unviable offspring, *decades* after the fact?
>
>How bad is the area around Hiroshima and Nagasaki? ..or for that
>matter, the areas downwind from the test ranges here in the USA? ..or
>the Bikini Atoll, or those other places the French keep blowing up?
And let's not forget the No Bikini Atoll . . .
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