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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?

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rshow55 - 08:09am Jun 18, 2003 EST (# 12577 of 12606)
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.

N. Korea Vows to Build Nuclear Deterrence By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 5:50 a.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Koreas-Nuclear.html

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said Wednesday it will step up efforts to strengthen its ``nuclear deterrent capabilities'' in response to U.S. pressure, and discarded American calls for multilateral talks on the atomic dispute.

The comments by North Korea's Foreign Ministry -- carried by the North's official news agency KCNA -- came shortly after a state-run newspaper apparently acknowledged publicly for the first time that the communist nation has a nuclear weapons program.

In Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, Secretary of State Colin Powell urged Southeast Asian nations to close ranks behind Washington's effort to form a coalition of countries to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions.

North Korean has warned that any blockade or embargo against it could lead to an ``all-out war'' and has said it would not join multilateral talks proposed by the United States.

12206 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.8LCubOV2htx.213234@.f28e622/13843">rshow55 5/30/03 7:48am</a>

For long term stability - relationships need to be reasonably balanced to circumstances in terms of both status and money.

12207 <a href="/webin/WebX?14@13.8LCubOV2htx.213234@.f28e622/13845">rshow55 5/30/03 8:40am</a>

For happy endings, people need to know how the story has gone. And what happy ending might look like.

How a Story is Shaped http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/ducksoup/555/storyshape.html offers a pattern - -

how can the story be set out -- to a happy ending?

I have a number of thoughts, but here is a simple, technical one - adjacent to the nuclear problem.

Kristof and others report that the S. Koreans and US forces continue to be concerned about invasion tunnels, from N. Korea, deep into S.Korea.

We should know where they are - and if we don't - we should spend whatever money - and well - drilling effort it takes to find them.

We should then open them enough to fill them with sewage - if possible, enough to flow right back to North Korea. That should be be both practically and symbolically useful.

rshow55 - 08:17am Jun 18, 2003 EST (# 12578 of 12606)
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.

12206 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8LCubOV2htx.213234@.f28e622/13843

12207 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8LCubOV2htx.213234@.f28e622/13845

Maybe when the sperm hits the egg, there are the beginnings of "war thinking" -- built into our logic, and some of its limits.

1183-84 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.8LCubOV2htx.213234@.f28e622/1509

There are much more reasonable solutions than war "on the table" - and we need to recognize problems in our "logic" to get to them - and calm down.

From a distance - some tragedies look like farces - cosmic jokes - and in some ways, that's true of this one.

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