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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?

rshowalter - 11:19pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5634 of 5636)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I'm off to sleep. Thanks, lunarchick!

mazza9 - 11:21pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5635 of 5636)

gisterme:

I take a coupla hours off for my weekly Toastmasters Meeting and you guys pump out 54 posting and alot of hot air. Is the Global Warming Site? 56,818 or was it 58,616. Mea Culpa made it up! The point is that the scene in which the pre hominid "wins" the water hole over the body o the competing tribe is linked to the present by the tossing of the bone into the air and it transforming into a satellite. I gave a seminar on Space and teaching science to high school and middle school teachers. That 7 min 10 second sequence encapsulates all of mankinds tool making history into that time frame.

Missile defense is far better than MAD. I've seen the plans and sweated the klaxons going off when Nixon mined Haiphong Harbor. We were at DEFCON II which, had there been any response to our actions, would have taken us to DEFCON I and would have initiated an EWO, (Emergency War Orders) launch. Not pretty to even think about!!

LouMazza

rshowalter - 11:22pm Jun 20, 2001 EST (#5636 of 5636)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD5552 rshowalter 6/20/01 1:59pm

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