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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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lchic - 05:30pm Nov 8, 2003 EST (# 16938 of 16986)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

There's a problem re MD

Technology Review: Why Missile Defense Won't Work ... of Defense investigator—brought new evidence to light (see “Postol vs ... believe that the top management of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (previously ... www.techreview.com/articles/postol0402.asp - 49k - 7 Nov 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

Technology Review: Postol vs. the Pentagon ... So it is that most of his fellow specialists in defense technology believe that if Postol says the missile defense program has critical flaws, it probably does ... www.techreview.com/articles/taubes10402.asp - 51k - 7 Nov 2003 - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from www.techreview.com ]

Missile-Defense System Critic Ted Postol Says He's A Target ... Rick Lehner, the spokesman for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, says Postol's charges are unfounded and outdated because they involve a component of ... www.estarwars.net/tedpostal.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

Missile Defense System Won't Work ... is capable of building a long-range missile and has ... To assume otherwise is to base defense planning on ... Theodore Postol is professor of science, technology, and ... www.commondreams.org/views/051100-101.htm - 14k - 7 Nov 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

Theodore Postol: MIT Expert to Speak on National Missile Defense ... in the West Bank. Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters, and Theodore A. Postol, National Missile Defense System adversary. ... sass.caltech.edu/press/postol.shtml - 9k - Cached - Similar pages

Pentagon's $60 Billion Missile Defense Program Flawed, Experts ... ... Postol raised his concerns in a May 11 letter to the president's chief of staff, John Podesta. The defense department's ballistic missile department did not ... www.space.com/news/missile_defense_000523.html - 33k - 7 Nov 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

On Point : A Flawed Missile Defense? ... The Bush administration could spend upward of $200 billion on missile defense, Postol says, but is working to keep any testing failures well under wraps. ... www.onpointradio.org/shows/2002/06/20020618_b_main.asp - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Boston Review: What's Wrong with Missile Defense What's Wrong with Missile Defense An Interview with Ted Postol. ... Postol is the leading critic of current US plans to build a system of ballistic missile defense. ... bostonreview.mit.edu/BR26.5/postol.html - 56k - 7 Nov 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

Top Scientist Steps Up Attack on Missile Defense ... Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the national missile defense program at the Pentagon ... test data and that the unidentified object seen in Postol's subsequent study ... www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/6/15/85441 - 27k - Cached - Similar pages

salon :: :: col :: cona :: The rigged missile defense test, By ... ... blatantly attempted to intimidate Theodore Postol, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is the country's leading critic of missile defense. ... www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/07/31/test/ - Similar pages

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lchic - 05:30pm Nov 8, 2003 EST (# 16939 of 16986)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Cantabb would you like to speak to that problem ...

lchic - 05:42pm Nov 8, 2003 EST (# 16940 of 16986)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

World influence of Putin and Bush since 2000

and as against each other

who's doing what

who's doing what well

who's collecting Aces

who's loosing tricks

what are they doing the same

what differently

Has their outward 'collaboration' been a success

Not seen a cp article in the mainstream to link here - as yet

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