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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 - 02:58pm Sep 19, 2002 EST (# 4424 of 4425)

GERMAN MINISTER COMPARES BUSH TO HITLER - http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=politicsnews&StoryID=1471464

rshow55 - 04:25pm Sep 19, 2002 EST (# 4425 of 4425)
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.

almarst - - who can know what is on such a great man's mind? Still, I've appreciated the many references you've posted from a Russian perspective, and the many fine arguments, since before the time of "Muddle in Moscow" http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=533129

1665 rshow55 4/22/02 4:22pm

Perhaps we've done a "dry run" that has generated some ideas that powers greater than ourselves have sometimes read.

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