From: Wolfgang Kundt

Subject: another little war ?

To: kip@tapir.caltech.edu Cc: lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru

Kip,

I still remember when I was a child, a (forced) follower of Hitler, when the bombs fell. Also, I remember the day when our village was to be shot, because two Russian soldiers had disappeared. (Fortunately, they returned in time for me to survive: they had drunken too much). In such situations, I did not enjoy the idea that I owed my suffering to our "Fuehrer", to my country, or to any person in the world: I wanted to survive.

I remember having read Evry Schatzt- man's memories in a recent Ann.Rev.A & A volume.

Your reply, Kip, would have shocked me in such a situation, justified or not. It must harden the frontiers.

Is there no more human solution to saving the world from a dictator, differ- ent from sending armies to the battlefield, and to make whole countries respon- sible ? Apart from the months of suffering, such activities create decades of hatred. Why not try to make war against that one person - the dictator ?! With all our modern technology, there should be ways of attacking essentially just that one person. Don't you think so ? I admit that there are very few examples so far, but technology improves daily.

Wars create hatred. I dislike wars: life can be so much more pleasant without.

Your friend Wolfgang.

"Русский переплет"