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[ann li <ann_z_li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject:
Re: PEN-L Digest - 4 Jun 2007 to 5 Jun 2007 (#2007-159)
From:
Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:31:11 -0700


The commentator I act as internet news director for, Travus T. Hipp,
once said that Samuel Colt made everyone in the 'Wild West' equal...
Kalashnikov did that for the Third World (The older models could
almost be completely manufactured with an open fire pit furnace and
primitive machine tools), and nuclear weapons proliferation will do
the same for the nations of the world after a while.

Has anyone done an econometric study or cost/benefit analysis of a
global nuclear war yet? It seems germane.

Leigh

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The arms racing literature of MAD in the poli-sci approach to GT is only
the tip of the iceberg on this research; my favorite is  Dr. Strangelove
(an amalgam of John von Neumann, Edward Teller, and Henry
Kissinger(sic)) modeled in GT:

http://www.nd.edu/~dlindley/handouts/strangelovenotes.html#N_3_
http://www.epsnet.org/2004/pps/Craciun.pdf

I remember Hipp from alternative format radio (KSAN-FM), which makes me
much older than (radioactive) dirt.

Ann