Today we had a seminar that included the Fat Man reading Failsafe and Dr. Strange love. In our seminar we first had a debrief of Fat Man and some really good questions were asked and answered. On Thermonuclear War states that nuclear war was possible, probable, and winnable. A question was asked based on this idea. If the book would state such, why would pacifist praise it? The answer that we came up with was since the book made nuclear war so imminent, disarming all nuclear bombs became an even more urgent mater. Some thing else that was discussed about Fat Man was the quote “War is a terrible thing but so is peace.”(page 4 line 4) How we interpreted this question quote was that this quote referred to baby deformities after nuclear war. It infers that during peacetime, there already are baby deformities and after an atom war “ we would mess up our hair a little bit.” The high light of our seminar was when we started to talk about Dr Strange love, and about his stone cold logic. Some thing that was mentioned and that related to the Nazism of his character was the intended genetic cleansing that would happen when selected specimens were to be placed in the mineshafts. This link also pointed out Herman Kahn being compared to Adolf Einchmann due to his nazi like stone cold logic. The comments that followed up I was struck by the most. Peter commented that stone logic was the causer of the Fail Safe fortune. After the comment I analyzed the two possible ways of dealing with the presented situation feeling or logic, as for me logic was the obvious answer. Saul closed the discussion by stating that a reason to do is based on logic, and a reason not to act is sentiment or values. In my opinion a great quote that could be discussed.

Even after the seminar I still had some questions a question. Why would anybody build a doomsday device and how would this be logical?