TO: HU & ALL,
Having s similar USAF background (1952-1975) to Hu's, including being a bomb commander (F-100s and F-105s) and Chief of the Nuclear Policy Section for SACEUR/NATO (1971-1974) as well as
combat in Vietnam, I endorse Hu's comments and know that with very few exceptions, every military person who had to fight wished that society and policymakers had found other ways to resolve problems. In the end, we know that given a choice between fighting and losing the freedoms, liberty, and values of democracy ... we fought. But it always was with regret. And those of us with responsibility on the nuclear side knew that it was the awareness of impacts up to Nuclear Winters
that made deterrence work and contributed to winning the Cold War. Now the probability of that deterrence working has dropped.
I'm talking to the National Museum of the Air Force, at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton on 23 October. The title is "The 2007 Meaning of the Vietnam War." The macro issues of science and technology's advances where human extinction is under serious study propells this "SSP as a
War Prevention Potential'" into a critically important emerging issue. I'll include it at Dayton.
Bob Krone
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Bob Krone, Ph.D. E-mail= BobKrone@aol.com
Krone Associates of Fallbrook, California, U.S.A.
