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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:30:04 -0800 From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net> Subject: Dr. Strangelove on the Y2K Opportunity

As I have been predicting for most of this year, the smartest thing our DOD may do is to use the information chaos of Y2K to go for a DECCOM (Decapitation of Command) strike as the clock hits midnight in Moscow. Knock out their sub pens on the Kola Peninsula, hit the missile facilities in Semipalatinsk, knock out Vladivostok, and do a lay down over Moscow.

A one-way ticket back to the 19th century. A few megadeaths may be a

That's MEGA-wishful thinking (not to mention more than a tad nuts). The results of a major nuclear strike would take the human race to a civilization level more akin to the Sumarians (at best). The ecological, technological, medical, etc. failures would be impossible to deal with at our current level of technology. Potentialy a billion or more people would survive short-term. Nobody in there right mind would want to trade places with them. Within 20 years the vast majority of the survivors would be dead. If there would be more than 50M in 60 years over the entire planet I'd be surprised. If I were setting policy I'd point a bunch/most of my nukes at myself. The kindest thing I can do for my people is to kill them, the worst thing I could do for my enemy is leave them alive - they'll eat themselves. Then I'd sit back and say: "Fuck with us and we suicide. Oh, we'll take you with us but slowly and by your own hand." In the process nuke their major grain belts, water resources, and raw metal sites, leave their cities and major population centers standing and occupied. It ain't winnable by either side except by avoidance. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------