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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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almarst2002 - 03:58pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8599 of 8638)

Nuclear arms labs would get more work under Bush budget - http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5101064.htm

almarst2002 - 04:10pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8600 of 8638)

While teams of U.N. experts scouring Iraq have yet to find any hidden caches of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, some U.S. journalists seem to have already turned up their own smoking guns. Whether out of excess zeal or simple carelessness, the media's intensive coverage of the U.N. inspections has repeatedly glided from reporting the allegation that Iraq is hiding banned weapons materials to repeating it as a statement of fact. - http://www.fair.org/press-releases/iraq-weapons.html

almarst2002 - 04:15pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8601 of 8638)

As social spending in the US plummets, the poor and hungry are feeling the pinch. And a war against Iraq will only add to their problems, writes - http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,889123,00.html

almarst2002 - 04:31pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8602 of 8638)

Powell’s Fairy Tales: Puerile and Patronising Colin Powell’s “evidence” was ambiguous in the extreme, wholly unconvincing, even suspicious, and the manner in which he presented it was a blueprint of sheer arrogance The “evidence” which was presented to the United Nations Security Council today by Colin Powell was a miscellany of obscure recordings which were misinterpreted by the US Secretary of State and risible satellite photographs which bore a strange resemblance to those which had been taken in Afghanistan two years before. - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/05/43044.html

almarst2002 - 04:33pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8603 of 8638)

The Australian Senate passed a non-confidence motion against the Prime Minister John Howard today in connection with the deployment of Australian troops against Iraq. The opposition accuses Mr. Howard of sending Australian soldiers to war without consulting the nation, the Parliament and without a sanction from the United Nations - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/05/43015.html

chnm_info - 05:44pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8604 of 8638)

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Weapons of mass destruction have become an increasingly prominent issue in recent months, discussed and debated within the United States and around the world. This is not the first time they have been a concern, however. More than one generation of Americans lived through the nuclear age of the arms race with the Soviet Union, an era that stretched from the 1950s to the 1990s. If you lived through this period, please record your recollections and reflections with ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online (http://echo.gmu.edu/), a project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

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almarst2002 - 08:09pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8605 of 8638)

In comments rarely heard from a sitting U.S. poet laureate, Billy Collins has publicly declared his opposition to war - http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/5112907.htm

A poet vs. OIL. Your choice?

almarst2002 - 08:14pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8606 of 8638)

The Case Weakens, the Plot Thickens - http://www.antiwar.com/bock/bockcol.html

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