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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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lchic - 10:21am Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8590 of 8598)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Iraq : the timing is driving the politics

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/04/international/middleeast/04CND_DISP.html

GU : ... dollar fell to a four-year low against the euro ... plunge is due to the increasing probability of war ... dollar will be damaged further if the US launches military action against Iraq without gaining a second UN resolution to authorise it ... Reuters Eurozone business activity index fell to 50.2 in January from 50.6 in December, close to the 50.0 level which separates economic growth from contraction

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,889363,00.html

UK - Nuclear power's future has never been more insecure - resigning-Chief hasn't finished the job he was was brought in to do at BNFL, namely cleaning up the prevalent culture of cover-up

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,889043,00.html

GU | UK | ... weakness of the global economy has led to blanket depression descending across manufacturing in the UK, with all 11 regions of the country suffering a decline in business confidence ... found the pressure on profit margins was forcing firms in every region to mothball investment plans ... Weak international demand is pulling operating levels further away from full capacity

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,889040,00.html

NK - US fears Koreans will sell N-bombs

    ... given the poverty of North Korea, that it would be too long after she had a good amount of fissile material to do whatever she wanted to do with it, first that she would be inclined to engage with somebody – a non-state actor, possibly a terrorist group or a rogue state".
    The warning came as the Pentagon placed long-range bombers on alert for possible deployment to military bases within striking range of North Korea.
    Russia's foreign ministry criticised the US plan
Shuttle - cameras
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5942455%5E401,00.html
    ""The private contractor that takes the photos denied there was a problem. However, the NASA officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said a top Kennedy Space Centre manager had ordered contractor Johnson Controls Inc to fix the problem.
""Tragically for all of us, there is no sense that George Bush and Tony Blair regard war as a desperate last resort. Instead, they contrive frantically to create the circumstances in which they can go ahead and start bombing. http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=374668

satire war | America's humorists are now having a field day with the many absurdities of the imminent conflict. Leading the way is The Onion

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=374802

Ordinary Americans think Bin Laden and Saddam are the same man...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=374807
    ... The only problem is that both these stories were untrue. The allegation of the Prague meetings – first made by Czech intelligence – was extensively investigated by the Czech government. President Vaclav Havel informed the White House that the allegation could not be substantiated. The CIA's director, George Tenet, told Congress last October that the CIA could find no supporting evidence.
    As for the anthrax attacks, the widely held view in the US now is that they were the work of a deranged American defence scientist and that the anthrax spores were stolen from America's own stocks.
    But the administration has continued to link Saddam Hussein, a man Bin Laden has called "an apostate, an infidel and a traitor to Islam", with al-Qa'ida

lchic - 10:32am Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8591 of 8598)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

FISK

""Travelling to the US more than once a month, visiting Britain at the weekend, moving around the Middle East, I have never been so struck by the absolute, unwavering determination of so many Arabs and Europeans and Americans to oppose a war.

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=373102

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