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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 - 05:17am Oct 11, 2002 EST (# 4798 of 4800)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

The Jackson-Vanik Amendment

http://teamhouse.tni.net/JVA-SFL.html
http://www.montagnards.org/Jackson-Vanik_Amendment.html

lchic - 05:24am Oct 11, 2002 EST (# 4799 of 4800)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Saddam acquiring technology for 'long-range supergun' By Kim Sengupta and Rupert Cornwell 10 October 2002

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=341196

lchic - 05:38am Oct 11, 2002 EST (# 4800 of 4800)
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Life's more serious these days

http://www.iranian.com/News/2000/December/bush.html

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