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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans
for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be
limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI
all over again?
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rshowalter
- 12:41pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5543
of 5546) 
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
No one has to deny any good thing about Kissinger, or the United
States, to think that.
dirac_10
- 12:44pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5544
of 5546)
mazza9 - 12:04pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5538 of 5542)
I suppose that we could hurl the malarky that has been posted
on this thread into the air and we would form an impenetrable
shield through which no missile could transit.
The sheer volume alone...
On the other hand the gas dynamic lasers that are to be
mounted on 747s can, in all likelihood, knock down missiles
in a theater environment and maybe even for continental
defense.
Exactly right. It seems that it will take 5 to ten years to have
them deployed. Time to get started.
I suppose the weakness of the system is that the 747 needs to be
within a few hundred miles, and there in the air, all the time. A
target. That's why we need a layered defense. No axiomatic system is
complete. You need lots of axioms to limit the incompleteness.
Is missile defense worth it? You tell me.
Can you imagine the bidding, when the ICBM is headed for LA? Even
if it's only a 50/50 chance, I suppose no one will be carping about
the cost then.
rshowalter
- 12:53pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5545
of 5546)
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
MD2705 rshowalter
4/28/01 11:22am ... MD2706 rshowalter
4/28/01 11:22am
MD2707 rshowalter
4/28/01 11:29am
C.I.A. Opens Files on Hitler by DAVID JOHNSTON http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/27/world/27CND-INTEL.html
... and those files have much to teach us about what has happened in
the Cold War.
The Cold War should have been over long ago.
**** compare to
Psychwarfare, Casablanca -- and terror http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/0
including the key story, #13.. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?7@@.ee7a163/13
... to #23.. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?7@@.ee7a163/24
note #26 ... http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/25
MD2708 rshowalter
4/28/01 12:34pm
Has anyone given thought to what things it was, after World War
II, that made Henry Kissenger so valued -- made him such a star?
We he a particularly valued diplomatic resource for dealing with
ex Nazis?
Given the mass of Nazi paper that Americans had to deal with at
the time, and the very extensive cast of characters who had to be
dealt with, it seems a fair question.
Some key stages of Kissenger's career seem likely to have been as
fictionalized as some of Kerrey's - though not, perhaps, for exactly
the same reasons.
A great deal of "dirt" has come out about Henry Kissenger, and
the group of foreign policy people, now central to the Republican
party, who he mentored.
But at the beginning -- there may be issues left to clarify --
which might cast light on the rest.
Individual arguments, from motivated people, may or may not be
wrong, or represent misinterpretations -- that becomes clear when
they are CHECKED. Often the only way, and often the best way, is to
have many pieces matched and crossmatched, until consistent patterns
emerge. The references here are some pieces, among a number, for
matching and crossmatching.
rshowalter
- 12:54pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5546
of 5546)
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
Get the issues of backgroud and motivation solved, and missile
defense may make sense -- to the Russians, and everybody else.
   
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