>>tip of downtown Manhattan is within a few > blocks of water on three sides, And what do you think the effect of a close range nuclear blast will be on a shallow bay filled with water...can you say drowned rat?
Rats can take 5 times the radiation levels of humans and breed faster,dont write us off,we may inherit the earth. professor rat. >>Things are different if you are thinking about *limited* nuclear war rather than MAD. Which is why old lefties like me who would have opposed CD in the 60s & 70s (mostly on civil liberties grounds) would now be rather in favour of it under the current conditions. A Britain targetted by 50 or 100 warheads is going to be Airstrip One. A Britain in which a single suitcase bomb goes off somewhere, or in which a few nutters from Iowa start throwing bugs around, is a place in which individual precautions might make sense. << The best defence is still offence,take the toys from the boys...by any memes necerssary.
