Bob Kanefsky interview cont'd

Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament

I'm not sure I would ever have gone so far to advocate that, but I always disagreed with the idea that it was important to build the capability to destroy all human life more than ten times over in order to keep up with the other side. It seemed like once or twice should be more than enough of a deterrent. I also felt that the citizens of the U.S. should realize that we were ultimately to blame if our democratically elected government was doing something evil. That's the idea behind “A Warning For Unknown Voters” Sometime during my lifetime so far -- even before the Soviet Union went broke before the U.S. did -- nuclear war started seeming like a less likely doomsday scenario than accidental destruction of the biosphere. I guess that's progress, sort of. One of the few songs I have touching on that is “Noah’s Origin” in which Venus is explored and turns out to be covered with landfills packed with CFC spray-cans.