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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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rshow55 - 08:11pm Sep 23, 2002 EST (# 4491 of 4496)
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.

When I came on this thread, in Sept 25, 2000 rshow55 4/21/02 3:14pm , I was terribly concerned about nuclear dangers - and felt, for reasons that still seem sensible in retrospect - http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@247.xGHYaq2NAKx.2@.ee79f4e/1556 Here are some postings from that time:

Signatories of the Global Security Institute appeal as of October 2, 2000 seem well worth listing, because I find the list hopeful:

Maya Angelou , Poet, Author

Kenneth J. Arrow , Nobel Laureate, Economics

Marc Benioff , Chairman, Salesforce.com

Hans Bethe , Nobel Peace Laureate; Physicist, Manhattan Project

Eli Broad , Chairman and CEO, Sun America, Inc.

Pierce Brosnan , Actor, Producer

Betty Bumpers , Founder and President, Peace Links

President Jimmy Carter

Liz Claiborne , Co-Founder, Liz Claiborne, Inc.

Joe Costello , Chairman & CEO, think3

Senator Alan Cranston , President, Global Security Institute

Walter Cronkite

James Crowe , CEO, Level 3 Communications, Inc.

Admiral William J. Crowe Jr ., U.S.N. (Ret.), Director, BioPort Corp.; Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Lester Crown , Chairman, Executive Committee, General Dynamics Corporation

Rob DeSantis , Co-Founder, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Ariba, Inc.

Alan M. Dershowitz , Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

John Doerr , Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Michael Douglas , Actor, Producer, UN Messenger of Peace

Richard Dreyfuss , Actor

Peter Drucker , Writer; Professor of Social Science and Management, Claremont Graduate School

Gloria Duffy , Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Freeman J. Dyson , Professor Emeritus Mathematical Physics and Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study

Marian Wright Edelman , President, Children’s Defense Fund

Mia Farrow , Mother, Actress

Joe Firmage , CEO, Project Voyager; Former CEO, US Web

Harrison Ford , Actor

Seth Glickenhaus, Sr. Partner, Glickenhaus & Co.

General Andrew Goodpaster , U.S.A. (Ret.), Former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Robert Haas , Chairman of the Board, Levi-Strauss & Co.

William Hambrecht , Chairman and CEO, W.R. Hambrecht & Co.

David Hamburg , President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Alan Hassenfeld , Chairman and CEO, Hasbro, Inc.

Francis Hatch

Peter deCourcy Hero , President, Community Foundation Silicon Valley

Father Theodore Hesburgh , Former President, University of Notre Dame

Arnold Hiatt , Former CEO, Stride Rite

Dee Hock , Founder and CEO Emeritus, VISA

General Charles Horner , U.S.A.F. (Ret.), Commander, Coalition Air Forces, Desert Storm; Former Commander in Chief, USSPACECOM

Bill Joy , Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems

Jerry Kaplan , Co-Chair, Egghead.com

Henry Kaufman , President, Henry Kaufman Company

Coretta Scott King , Founding President, Martin Luther King Jr. Center

Michael King , Former CEO, King World

Steven Kirsch , Founder, Infoseek; Chairman and Founder, Propel

Ann Landers , Columnist

Gary and Laura Lauder , General Partners, Lauder Partners

William Laughlin , Former Chair, Saga Corporation

Elisabeth Leach , Chairman, Peace Links

Ambassador James Leonard , Director, Washington Council on Nonproliferation; Former Assistant Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Kathy Levinson , Former President and COO, E*Trade

Robert McNamara , Former Secretary of Defense

Mike Medavoy , Chairman, Phoenix Pictures

Harry Motro , Chairma

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