New York Times on the Web Forums Science

Missile Defense

Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

Read Debates, a new Web-only feature culled from Readers' Opinions, published every Thursday.

rshow55 - 10:06am May 22, 2003 EST (# 11862 of 11881)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

The New York Times community was proud when Clifton Daniels married Margaret Truman.

President Truman was proud, too.

The New York Times remains a hugely influential, powerful institution - not only a newspaper - but probably, as a team, the most influential institution of intellectuals anywhere in the world.

Still, some of the reasons for the sort of pride President Truman felt in associating with Daniels have eroded - and those reasons need to be restored, it seems to me.

Without sacrificing progress that has been made.

bbbuck - 10:57am May 22, 2003 EST (# 11863 of 11881)

Hey that was funny, Robcattleborg.

Not that I support his spamming posts.

I think looneychic likes you....

Support Missile Defense contractors ...pay your taxes on time.

lchic - 11:41am May 22, 2003 EST (# 11864 of 11881)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

"" Putin, gaining the keys to the Kremlin was done with remarkable ease. As he confidently strode the red carpet at his inauguration as President, the applause highlighted a nation's relief. Here was a man tough enough to guide Russia back to recapture its former glory. However, few were cheering louder than Russia's secret services. Putin was their man, a former KGB agent and director of Russia's Federal Security Bureau, known as the FSB, Russia's new President had already proven that he had the ruthless resolve to crush any dissenters on the way to the top. ....

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?11@13.64dYapV0b3D.1332250@.f28e622#post

lchic - 05:05pm May 22, 2003 EST (# 11865 of 11881)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Congo

To boldly go? Not likely

Forgetful of its previous mistakes in nation building and distracted by Iraq, the international community risks failing Congo with potentially disastrous results, writes Simon Tisdall

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,961350,00.html

almarst2003 - 06:38pm May 22, 2003 EST (# 11866 of 11881)

The United Nations Backs Down - http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15978

"Back to business as usual. They're only Arabs after."

lchic - 06:42pm May 22, 2003 EST (# 11867 of 11881)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Chronology - Cold War - Policies

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html

CNN - track key events in Cold War history -- and the confrontation's impact on technology and science.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/timeline/

Society: History: By Time Period: Twentieth Century: Cold War

http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/Cold_War/

(14 following messages)

New York Times on the Web Forums Science Missile Defense