On Thermonuclear War

Herman Kahn:
He was an intellectual whose job it was to think. He studied many things and wrote books. He created a book based on Nuclear war called: On Thermonuclear War which described his complex ideas about it.

My reactions and opinions on some of the main topics in the article:

"Will the survivors envy the dead?"
Kahn seems to think that the survivors of the attack will not envy the dead. I think this makes an excellent question. People certainly won't be able to live their lives like before, but i do not believe that will make them wish they were dead. I think it really depends on how hard people suffer. I guess they could potentially feel guilty. Such as after the holocaust many people felt guilty that the lives of over eleven million people died and they didn't so it is possible that the survivors could envy the dead.

Not giving up Europe to Soviet Russia vs. Birth Defects.
I think that ultimatly if we had given up Europe we would have been in a lot more trouble that had we endured the radiation and the rate of defects gone up. Unfortunatly birth defects can be a sad thing but had communism spread where would we be now? Also with all the polution currently in the air the birth defect rate is increasing.

Nuclear War: It's terrible but we will get over it.
This is a harsh statement! It is basically saying that yeah we will loose millions of lives but, we will get over it. I think that it is terrible and that why are we or did we result to this. Why are we leaving our earth like this for future generations and when will we stop? I think that we need to not just recognize that it is/was horrible but that it has a HUGE permanant effect on us!