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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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wrcooper - 09:36pm Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15587 of 15593)

bluestar23:

You wrote, et seq:

But we deny that it is effective (as MD is) as a Bluff, which may well pan out after years of effort...the fact is, the world doesn't yet know whether USA will be successful or not, so they must to some degree assume worst case scenario....so MD IS a successful bluff, so far, isn't it..?

Yes, it's been a successful bluff, but we ought not deploy a system that doesn't work. That will then be a dead giveaway that we don't have the goods.

[D]on't forget this played a geo-strategic part in the anti-Soviet thing...

We had an ABM Treaty, remember? The ex-Soviet Union collapsed for many reasons, primarily economic failure. Their military position at the end of the 1980's was still formidable.

[It] would be wrong to expect all nations to forgo BM's....they will not, and can develop under "scientific" cover....just watch Iran, they are lying to the EU about their new "agreement"....whether BM's or the Bomb, nations will continue, despite Bush's efforts, to make these things...

I don't doubt that there will be efforts to build limited ICBM arsenals, but I don't think that an ABM system is the way to counter the threat, assuming that it should ever develop.

Can we claim to know the specifics of the MD budget just on the basis of generalized public numbers....

Generalized numbers? This is the budget approved by Congress. Detailed prospectuses have been written about the NMD program.

all these programs are highly classified, "black" financing, wouldn't they be...

You mean like the black helicopters that the US oligarchy in collusion with the UN are planning to use to subdue the American public when they take us over?

The neat thing about the MD is that it doesn't really have to work, does it? Because it's a defensive system, one never will actually fire it and so test it...its mere existence, even as a program, is enough to have real consequences...One could say one had developed an MD, and set up some dummy missiles behind a fence.....what difference would there be..?

Are you serious?

robkettenburg03 - 09:36pm Oct 24, 2003 EST (# 15588 of 15593)

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