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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 - 09:56am Oct 1, 2002 EST (# 4696 of 4702)
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.

Got distracted, slept late, and I'll be a while responding to 4653-4 manjumicha 9/29/02 8:05pm .

Easy reading makes hard writing. While I try to make some easy reading, some people might like to refer to a fine article Crude Weapons Cited As Achilles Heel in Missile Plan by William J. Broad http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/27/international/27MISS.html , which includes a wonderful mulitmedia connection: Warheads, Sailing, Weaving, and Bobbing.

I wish I could also post a picture that was printed in the Feb 11, 2001 WEEK IN REVIEW , that appeared on the same page as James Dao's wonderful essay, " Please Do Not Disturb us with Bombs." That picture shows a contrails from a failed ABM test - showing clear evidence of gross servoinstability. A kind of instability that only occurs with some approaches to control a lot more primative than those that would be required to cope with even moderately sophisticated ballistic missile threats.

lchic - 09:56am Oct 1, 2002 EST (# 4697 of 4702)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

FISK

322 children killed

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=338354

(won't mean much in the USA where the kids run round with guns and have killed each other daily for decades)

lchic - 10:01am Oct 1, 2002 EST (# 4698 of 4702)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Israel offers more criticism of Isreal than ... say ... the NYT

"" opposition leader, Yossi Sarid, branded the withdrawal "a capitulation by a blind government unable to see two steps ahead"

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=338353

lchic - 10:26am Oct 1, 2002 EST (# 4699 of 4702)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

"" ... Powell warned that the basis of those inspections may well change with the new resolution.

Hans Blix, one of the chief weapons inspectors, suggested as he walked into the meeting that he answered to the UN, not the US.

"A little later in the day I hope we'll be able to tell you a little more, but you must recall also that I'm reporting to the Security Council and that's going to take place on Thursday morning, and they are my masters."

http://abc.net.au/news/2002/10/item20021001061659_1.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/2289338.stm

lchic - 10:52am Oct 1, 2002 EST (# 4700 of 4702)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

USA et al

.... a state has the right to ban someone from having children as a condition of probation? They will definitely have to consider executions ... Supreme court judges often thwart the intentions of their political patrons by turning out other than expected. Bush is likely to appoint people whose views will be so far off and up the wall that no mistake will be possible. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,802243,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,802362,00.html

UK to buy 150 F35 Joint Strike Fighters http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/0,11816,670957,00.html

EU Carlyle head - cartoonist viewpoint http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/comment/0,9236,802281,00.html

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