re: #39 Decatur Deb

Incinerating 100,000 people with plutonium is barbarism while melting them with thermite is just war. Thermite is a sacrament.

People are kidding themselves if they forget that war is hell. If nuclear weapons hadn’t been available in the 20th century it seems more likely than not that world war three (US vs. USSR) would be in the history books by now.

Mutual assured destruction was both insane and effective.