--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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." >
That was the big problem with mutually assured destruction, all the US/Ruskie posturing wars had to be fought by proxy in Korea, Vietnam, the middle east etc. Something else for our pal Fuchs to be concerned about I think!
