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 [F] 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?

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rshow55 - 08:44pm Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16409 of 16411)
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.

rshow55 - 07:11am Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15452 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.NMRTbrmZUdI.1061503@.f28e622/17165 reads in part:

In complicated systems - there is no sensible alternative - as experience and problems accumulate - to some exception handling and some resorting and reframing.

"Both Eisenhowers and Bill Casey felt that very strongly.

" I was assigned to work on exception handling patterns that neither the formal intelligence apparatus, nor the private sector as it was, nor the academic community could handle - in ways that I thought then, and still think, made sense in the overall national interest - and in the interest of our capitalistic system, our political system - and the academy.

"In an effort not to leak - but also to live my life - and make contributions I had a right to make - consistent with the national interest as well as my own - I have tried to "come in through the New York Times" - as Casey had instructed. It has worked well in some ways - awkwardly for others.

- - - -

There's a lot of support to my story - though I have no pictures of me standing beside Casey or Eisenhower - ( for the same reasons that I don't expect Mimi Beardsley to have pictures with Kennedy - though she may have them ). Whether you happen to "call me Ishmael" http://www.mrshowalter.net/CaseyRel.html or happen to believe my story - I think things are worth checking - and think I've long deserved a face-to-face hearing.

rshow55 - 08:55pm Nov 3, 2003 EST (# 16410 of 16411)
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.

My involvement with the Missile Defense board started with discussion about nuclear weapons on the old NYT Favorite Poetry board.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet_6222_Sep21_2000_PoetryAbtNks.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet6229_Set22_2000_SeeNukes_DowrnInOrder.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet6237_Sep23_2000_SeeWillyNilly.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet6242_MRSnWillyNilly.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet_6250_SeeLunarchick.htm http://www.mrshowalter.net/FavPoet_6259_Sep24_2000_KateSaysGoToMD.htm ends with this:

. kate_nyt - 01:27pm Sep 24, 2000 EST (#6264 of 6739) Community Producer, NYTimes.com

Afternoon, all-

This forum is for poetry only. Please move any discussion of nuclear weapons to the Missile Defense forum in the Science area. It could use the help!

Have a good Sunday, Kate

My involvement with the Missile Defense thread began on a Monday, at 07:32am Sep 25, 2000 EST (#266) Ridding the world of nuclear weapons, this year or next year. What would have to happen? rshowalt 9/25/00 7:32am . For the rest of that day, I had a discussion with "becq," who I have often thought might have been President Clinton,

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md266.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md273.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md280.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md290.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md300.htm

ending at #304, which is worth reading in itself ... rshowalt 9/25/00 5:28pm http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md304.htm

Based on things discussed in http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/MD8393.HTM and some other things that were happening to me - it didn't seem certain - but it also didn't seem far-fetched - that becq might be Clinton - or somebody close to him.

Perhaps, at that time - I had a far-fetched view of how close the NYT and the US government actually were.

That view seemed reasonable then, and it doesn't seem far-fetched now, either.

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