> > The Manhattan project spy who gave the Ruskies the bomb
> > was Klaus Fuchs [since corrected], a german rocket
> > scientist who worked on the V2, he was a spoil of war
> > and subsequently excused from any war crime trials. I
> > wonder if there is anyone in recent history with more
> > to answer for and if he was aware of that.
> >
TurquoiseB wrote:
> That is a good question, and one that (unlike some
> here) I simply do not have a cosmic enough perspective
> on to answer.
>
> The arms race led to America basically ignoring the
> welfare of its own people (good education, free health
> care, etc.) because it couldn't *afford* it; they were
> spending so much money on weapons for 60 years. It also
> led to a climate of fear on the whole planet for all
> of those years. That's on the negative side.
>
> On the *possibly* positive side, the person who gave
> away America's nuclear secrets may well have done the
> planet as a whole a favor, because it led to "nuclear
> stalemate." As much as I hate to admit it, "mutually
> assured destruction" may have actually *prevented*
> mutual destruction.
>
> Who can say? Not I. But I do regret that America wound
> up so pussywhipped by fear and by the military-indus-
> trial complex for 60 years that they couldn't afford
> to provide the decent standard of living for its
> people that I see in European nations that didn't
> have to spend that much to "keep up with the Joneses."
>
So, you're pussywhipped with fear and you think that the
federal government owes you an education and free medical
care.
