Its just a matter of what dwells in people's memories. Big adrenaline
rushing disasters tend to be reinforced in the mind more than subtle,
everyday killers, even though many more people are killed by everyday
humdrum things than catastrophes. People look at the one bomb for
Hiroshima and forget that many more people were killed in the
firebombing of Dresden, and probably they died much more cruel deaths
for the most part than the flash fried Hiroshimans. I doubt that more
than 1 in ten Americans even know that Dresden is in Germany or what
happened there, yet at least half if not more know what happened at
Hiroshima and where it is, when and why. You don't see any worldwide
protests and campaigns to ban conventional bombs, do you? Nor any laws
about how much cholesterol and fat are allowed in foods, even though
they kill more people than radiation or nicotine ever will.
-- TANSTAAFL!!! Michael Lorrey ------------------------------------------------------------ mailto:retroman@together.net Inventor of the Lorrey Drive MikeySoft: Graphic Design/Animation/Publishing/Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------ How many fnords did you see before breakfast today?