[John D Harris]

Will there be a WWII? You bet your sweet bippy there will be, ever since we got kicked out of the Garden, or crawled out of the slime (Depending on which camp you are in.) we humans have killed each other and will continue to do so.

But as is was pointed out in an earlier post, at the current time there is nobody that can stand up to the USA. WHEN, not if, a rival nation arises that can threaten the USA in military and economic power, there will be lots of folks killed. The USSR for all it's Military power couldn't stand up to the USA in economic power. Despite what many re-visionists want to say the USA ran the USSR economy into the ground. The USA spent 7-9% of GNP on defense, the USSR spent nearly 30% of GNP on defense. Both countries spent about the same amount of actual money, the USSR spent nearly 1/3 of it's capitability to keep up(some accounts slightly ahead). If the USA needed to spend we could have increased our spending to 1/3, then inorder to keep up the USSR would have had to increase to spending 100%.

Nukes are great weapons to DEFEND in a conflict or to End a conflict. But Nukes are a complete assine weapon to use if one wishes to gain territory or resources. Radioactive fallout kinda puts a damper the use of any territory where nukes have been used, and it kinda defeats the purpose of gaining resources *cough* Oil *cough* If one has to wait a couple of thousand years before radiation levels have droped enough to go drilling. [img]smile.gif[/img]