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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
- 10:24pm Sep 13, 2002 EST (#
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Gareth EVANS / Bush Address ""long shopping list that
was laid out in the speech, going well beyond the removal of
... support is there for going down the removal of weapons of
mass destruction ... demonstrate it has the intent to
misbehave ... the critical thing is to concentrate everyone's
mind in the way that I'm sure Colin Powell wants to but
there's always the question mark about others in the
administration. http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s676116.htm
lchic
- 10:27pm Sep 13, 2002 EST (#
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
lchic
- 04:58am Sep 14, 2002 EST (#
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Phillip Adams | """The US has to learn that its worst enemy
is the US," Adams had written, accusing the US of madness,
brutalities, self-destructiveness, violence and Christian
fascism. http://www.geocities.com/phillipadamsfanclub/adventures9.htm
"" Phillip Adams' Introduction argues that for bigotry to
be dealt with it first needs to be recognised, and then
challenged - social friction rather than niceness is needed.
http://www.anu.edu.au/parsa/antitheses/1997/AntWin97review.html
Back to nuclear overkill The Weekend Australian ,
14-09-2002 , Ed: 1 , Pg: R32 , 1034 words , FEATURES
GEORGE W. Bush is, God help us, US President, despite
receiving fewer votes than Al Gore. For this he can thank his
brother, Jeb, the devious Governor of Florida, and his
father's conservative friends on the US Supreme Court. Having
stolen the elec...
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lchic
- 05:11am Sep 14, 2002 EST (#
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Back to nuclear overkill The Weekend Australian ,
14-09-2002 , Ed: 1 , Pg: R32 , 1034 words , FEATURES GEORGE W.
Bush is, God help us, US President, despite receiving fewer
votes than Al Gore. For this he can thank his brother, Jeb,
the devious Governor of Florida, and his father's conservative
friends on the US Supreme Court. Having stolen the election,
one of the most mediocre men to hold office was given
unprecedented power by, of all people, Osama bin Laden.
Now 12 months later, the nuclear clock - stopped a t a
minute to midnight when Mikhail Gorbachev accidentally ended
the Soviet Union and the Cold War - is ticking again. Thanks
to tpolicies of unprecedented recklessness by Busha nd co,
we've a grwoing nunclear danger.
Nobel prize-winnning physicist Steven Weinberg, who has
served as a consultant to US agencies on national defence
issues, warns: "The US possessea s an enormous nuclear
arsenal .... ve've about 6000 operationally deployed nuclear
weapons, of which roughly 2000 are on intercontinental
ballistic missiles, 3500 on submariene-launch ballistic
missiles and a few hundred carried by bomber aircraft. These
thermo-nuclear weapons are considerably more powerful than the
fission bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Russia maintains a nuclear arsenal of comparable size,
though with a different mix of delivery vehicles. and though
Bush and Vladimire Putin have signed a treaty clalling for
reducing operationally dployed nuclear weapons on both sides
to about 3800 in 2007 and to about 1700 in 2012, the rate of
reduction is agonisingly slow.
Moreover, the weapons are not being destroyed or
dismantled, simply mothballed. The US Defence Department's
plans have been laid out in a classifed Nuclear Posture Review
(Jan9) which calls for the retention of about 7000 intact
warheads, a large number of plutonium pits (the fission bomb
that triggers a thermonuclear explosion) and other weapon
components. "Looking at these figures," writes Weinber, "one
can hardly help asking: What are all those nuclear weapons
for?"
lchic
- 05:18am Sep 14, 2002 EST (#
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Steven
Weinburg Nobel Physicist
lchic
- 05:26am Sep 14, 2002 EST (#
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Mathematicians bio index A-Z born -500AD to
1957AD http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history//BiogIndex.html
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