Do we =really= need to start up another guns/weapons/geopolitical penis-measuring debate?

I would vote no.


At 01:05 PM 1/23/03, you wrote:


William Robb wrote:

> What is the time span needed for something to be called a weapon of mass
> destruction (if we are going to put the term into the language)?
> A bomb dropped on a city can kill thousands at once, and would qualify.
> An army using nuclear waste material (inexplicably called depleted uranium)
> in tank destroying weapons can poison an entire population over a few
> generations with the fallout from vaporized uranium.

I suppose you can support that hazy assumption?

keith whaley

> Does this count?
> Or does it have to happen all at once?
> Just wondering.
>
> William Robb



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