08/26/2005: "The Profits of Fear"

With the 60th anniversary

of the slaughter

of Hiroshima

and

Nagasaki

still fresh in memory

this is an interesting article;

heading for the laundromat ... my cell phone rings ... the inventor of the neutron bomb is on the line...

in both content

and approach

and it is worth some consideration.

Take especial note of Chapter 4, entitled "What's a Neutron?"

It also contains this:

Cohen concluded that neutron bombs would be built only if the United States got itself into a conventional war that imposed an intolerable financial burden while creating unacceptable casualties among American troops.

Sound familiar?


I found it on Boing Boing

lerevdr on Fri 26-Aug-2005 @ 23:27 e.s.t [permalink]
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