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Nazi engineer and Disney space advisor Wernher Von Braun helped give
us rocket science. Today, the legacy of military aeronautics
has many manifestations from SDI to advanced ballistic missiles. Now there is a controversial push for a new missile defense system.
What will be the role of missile defense in the new geopolitical
climate and in the new scientific era?
    (333 previous messages)lunarchick - 12:09am Sep 29, 2000 EDT (#334 of 396)
Barrier Reef - not the place4 - NUKE SUBs ! In summary, nuclear weapons:
cause death and destruction;
induce cancers, leukaemia, keloids and related afflictions;
cause gastro intestinal, cardiovascular and related afflictions;
continue for decades after their use to induce the health-related problems mentioned above;
damage the environmental rights of future generations;
cause congenital deformities, mental retardation and genetic damage;
carry the potential to cause a nuclear winter;
contaminate and destroy the food chain;
imperil the eco-system;
produce lethal levels of heat and blast;
produce radiation and radioactive fall-out;
produce a disruptive electromagnetic pulse;
produce social disintegration;
imperil all civilization;
threaten human survival;
wreak cultural devastation;
span a time range of thousands of years;
threaten all life on the planet;
irreversibly damage the rights of future generations;
exterminate civilian populations;
damage neighbouring States;
produce psychological stress and fear syndromes as no other weapons do;
distort our perceptions. http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/handbook/part4.html
lunarchick - 12:19am Sep 29, 2000 EDT (#335 of 396)
Barrier Reef - not the place4 - NUKE SUBs ! http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000/handbook/part3.html
lunarchick - 12:25am Sep 29, 2000 EDT (#336 of 396)
Barrier Reef - not the place4 - NUKE SUBs ! orrespondent
ISLAMABAD, Sept 16: Prominent scientist Dr Samar Mubarik Mand has
disclosed that Pakistan has developed indigenous missile technology
in the form of Shaheen-II.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Management Course for Wapda
Officers as chief guest at Wapda Staff College here on Saturday he
said that Shaheen-II is a multi-stage missile and has the range of
2500 km and is ready for testing.
Besides atomic missile technology, Pakistan has developed a lot in
metal and communication technology, he added.
He said Pakistan is in forefront of technological development. He
said, "we responded to explode the nuclear deterrent within five
days after getting clearance from the government in May, 1998. It
was not a miracle but it had the preparation of 25 years behind
it."
"We are thankful to Mr Vajpayee who provided us an opportunity to
declare officially our nuclear and missile capability," Dr Samar
Mubarik said.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/2000/sep23.html
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/dawn.html
lunarchick - 07:34am Sep 29, 2000 EDT (#337 of 396)
Barrier Reef - not the place4 - NUKE SUBs ! it is clear that even after the
implementation of the reductions required by START II in the year 2007, the two countries will retain 3,000 to 3,500 strategic nuclear warheads
respectively in active deployment, which can destroy mankind many times, not to mention the large number of warheads they each keep in storage. http://www.acronym.org.uk/26doc.htm
lunarchick - 10:18am Sep 29, 2000 EDT (#338 of 396)
Barrier Reef - not the place4 - NUKE SUBs ! http://www.acronym.org.uk/index.htm http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd26.htm
http://www.acronym.org.uk/26china.htm
http://www.prop1.org/nucnews/9912nn/991211nn.htm
lunarchick - 10:27am Sep 29, 2000 EDT (#339 of 396)
Barrier Reef - not the place4 - NUKE SUBs ! increasingly dysfunctional. Post-Cold War http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/walker41.htm
lunarchick - 11:12am Sep 29, 2000 EDT (#340 of 396)
Barrier Reef - not the place4 - NUKE SUBs ! The real law in the modern state is the multitude of little decisions made daily by
millions of men
Lippmann did not, perhaps could not then, foresee the vast machinery of "government-by-agency." The agencies of government are, to a fairly large extent,
governmental efforts to mediate between technological growth and the public welfare. That
they are attacked by both the technological entrepreneurs and the neo-Luddites is a sign that
they are doing many things right. Discussion about the role of federal agencies is important in
dealing with the topic of science/democracy. There are several important areas that I shall only
list in no particular order: the inertia inherent in any bureaucracy; diffusion of responsibility and
accountability; removal beyond the reach of the electorate; the question of the "value-set" or
"worldview" brought to bear on governmental approaches to issues arising out of science and
technology: where were the elites trained and do they, by and large, respond to the same or
similar views of reality; the basic concern of the "regulators" to preserve their position rather
than to foster the public welfare. These issues affect the U.S. body politic as a whole, but, they
are particularly important in the agencies, since many practical decisions about the use of (and,
in effect, the promotion of) various technologies are made there.'
http://itest.slu.edu/dloads/80s/demotech.txt
'Public apathy and ignorance about the methods, products, and philosophy of science and technology is as great a threat to
liberty as anything coming out of science and technology.'
lunarchick - 11:31am Sep 29, 2000 EDT (#341 of 396)
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