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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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lunarchick - 08:43am Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7212 of 7216)

Negotiation reference (as above) to get to it

http://www.google.com/search?q=Negotiation+conflict+power+ppt&btnG=Google+Search&num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1

see

[PPT]Conflict, Power, & Negotiation File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint 97 - View as HTML Conflict, Power, & Negotiation.
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almarst2002 - 11:18am Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7213 of 7216)

Arabs urged to seek nuclear arsenal - http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/realtime/fullstory_print.html&cf=tgam/realtime/config-neutral&articleDate=20030102&slug=wxnuke0102&date=20030102&archive=RTGAM&site=Front

rshow55 - 11:23am Jan 2, 2003 EST (# 7214 of 7216)
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.

M.I.T. Studies Accusations of Lies and Cover-Up of Flaws in Antimissile System By WILLIAM J. BROAD http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/national/02MISS.html

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is looking into accusations that its premier laboratory lied to cover up serious problems with the technology at the heart of the administration's proposed antimissile defense system.

The university was prodded to act by Theodore A. Postol, a tenured M.I.T. physicist in security studies and a prominent critic of the antimissile plan. In letters to Congress and elsewhere, Dr. Postol has said M.I.T. appeared to be hiding evidence of serious flaws in the nation's main antimissile weapon, a ground-based rocket meant to destroy incoming enemy warheads by impact. His accusations center on a 1998 study by Lincoln Laboratory, a federally financed M.I.T. research center, and have grown over the years to include the institute's provost, president and corporate chairman.

Because of security problems of my own, I've never had the honor of talking to Postol. He could have called me, given my constraints, but it was intolerably risky for me to call him.

Just now, I do think that the administration is doing some things very wrong - but I also think that they have some things straight (most with the right sign) and hope the president doesn't get distracted. Some mistakes, unforgivable in some respects, are understandable in others - and a great deal is on the table now.

I'd feel safer if things were moving somewhat more slowly, except in cases where very fast action makes contextual sense on a fully checked basis. My guess is that a lot of people are under enough stress, and distracted enough, that they need to check their work more than they usually do. I dropped the phone this morning while talking to lunarchick , and in the course of picking up the part that had dropped, dropped the other part.

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