[ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of Silence

[Steven Dapra]

Aug. 9

         Regardless of their sincerity, or their motives, I believe these 
protesters are rather confused.  I think they keep showing up because they 
feel they have to prove something to themselves, not to their audience(s).

Steven Dapra
sjd at swcp.com



At 09:13 AM 8/9/07 -0700, Flood, John wrote:
>We were met by protesters at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site this 
>morning - all peaceful, as appropriate.
>
>I can't help but see a grand irony here.  These undoubtedly sincere people 
>choose this occasion to express their displeasure with nuclear weapons, 
>but it's not the bomb that's the problem. There's nothing that can be done 
>to adjust the bomb to make the resulting deaths better or worse than other 
>war-caused deaths.  It is the act of war that is the problem, not the 
>inanimate objects used as tools of war.  I just don't understand the 
>thought process that leads to protesting one type, but only one type, of 
>weapon used in war.
>
>John R. (Bob) Flood
>Radiological Health
>Nevada Test Site
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