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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?

gisterme - 12:36am Nov 21, 2001 EST (#10320 of 10657)

ledzeppelin 11/15/01 12:04pm

"...Respectfully your naivety in such an awful sordid little global village is a refreshing blast..."

Now who's resorting to instults, led?

I guess it's all or nothing with you. After all President Bush has been in office for nearly a year now...he should have all the world's problems completely solved by now, right? No point in getting rid of half of the world's ICBMs if you can't get them all at once, right? None of this one-step-at-a-time stuff for you, right, led?

Sheesh. Where are you coming from? You sound like you'd rather be back into the nuclear arms race. Would you? If not, what's wrong with getting about the business of removing as many strategic nukes as possible? So what if it takes time to get rid of those things? Do you expect either us or Russia to do a complete unilateral strategic disarmament?

I'm baffled that you'd call anybody else naive. I'm with regeya in opinion about the importance of the ongoing arms reductions. It's just not the top story because the Cold War is over and the prospect of a massive strategic nuclear excange (or even a little one) between the US and Russia is way down on the risk list. That's just a miniscule probability when compared to the probability of another large terrorist attack somewhere in the US or Europe.

Russia is not the threat that the proposed ballistic missile defense will address. It won't surprise me a bit if Russia joins the rest of Europe and the US behind the missile shield. It also won't surprise me if some of the principal missile shield components are based in Russia. After all those are the best locations to place interceptors or lasers to destroy missiles launched from any of most likely sources.

gisterme - 12:58am Nov 21, 2001 EST (#10321 of 10657)

logician3 wrote ( logician3 11/13/01 7:19am ):

"Bush's proposed NMD program, like his total agenda, is frankly insane"

Thanks for publishing your psychiatric diagnosis, logician. Were it not for your diagnosis I might have tended to give the president some credit for doing a good job under very difficult circumstances. Now I know it's just the luck of the insane. Glad you cleared that up.

Have you been billing the president for your services? Does he pay for your advice? :-)

gisterme - 01:39am Nov 21, 2001 EST (#10322 of 10657)

Maybe we need to lighten up a little, guys...check this out:

http://www.watchersweb.com/f6122.htm

:-)

gisterme - 02:41am Nov 23, 2001 EST (#10323 of 10657)

Here are some misslie defense links:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense/

http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/arms/stories/00062701.htm

http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol6/v6n03taiwan.html

http://www.brookings.org/comm/policybriefs/pb86.htm

wrcooper - 06:57pm Nov 28, 2001 EST (#10324 of 10657)

What happened to Bob Showalter? Banned? Or did he finally just poop out?

mazza9 - 10:38pm Nov 28, 2001 EST (#10325 of 10657)
Louis Mazza

WRCooper

"All Gone!!!"

wrcooper - 11:33pm Nov 28, 2001 EST (#10326 of 10657)

mazza9 11/28/01 10:38pm

Lou,

Why? He was posting hundreds, if not thousands, of words per day and then suddenly zippo. No word of explanation or reason given for withdrawal. You know what went down?

mazza9 - 08:23am Nov 29, 2001 EST (#10327 of 10657)
Louis Mazza

WRCooper:

He reached the point where he had taken over this forum for his own edification. He didn't stay on point. He was reindexng and reporting his previous posts and no one really knew who or what was happening. It wasn't a chat or conversation anymore and Scott asked repeatedly for him to moderate his behavior. When that didn't happen he was shown the gate.

You could follow the thread but who has the time!!

LouMazza

armel7 - 02:27pm Nov 29, 2001 EST (#10328 of 10657)
Science/Health Forums Host

News:Pentagon to procede with MD tests...

After many chances and tries, I finally had to block showalter.

Your host,
Michael Scott Armel

dejaxxvu - 10:38am Dec 1, 2001 EST (#10329 of 10657)

The sentiments of posts 10234-10238 aren't related to the 'subject' of the thread? The posters read as ONE and the SAME. Totally lacking in professionalism - aspect 'customer service'.

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