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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 01:27pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2813 of 2819)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

New and more powerful weapons -- in the ways where military utility means something -- are very close at hand -- with the new vulnerabilities of the internet world. Nuclear weapons have become obsolete -- liabilities, not assets.

And there is nothing that "history shows" that anyone has pointed out to me, that indicates that nukes can't be taken down -- carefully, and in ways that increase the security, and reduce the costs, of all concerned.

On September 25 - I made a specific proposal -- what's impossible?

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cookiess0 - 01:28pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2814 of 2819)

Rrosh,

Getting back to my point, the focus of your concerns is the result of the international system and not the result of one individual.It is the system stupid.

cookiess0 - 01:29pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2815 of 2819)

rshowalter - 01:27pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2813 of 2814)

You also made a remark saying you felt you were speaking with Clinton. I was the individual you were speaking with. So your assumptions maintained then leave you incorrect now:)

rshowalter - 01:30pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2816 of 2819)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Getting nukes down WOULD take a lot of staff work.

There are ways, now quite feasible, for dealing with that -- and the corpus of this thread, I believe, suggests something about how it might be done at the level of structure, and also includes specific discussions - that have been discussed in some detail with a person who has been "standing in the stead of" President Putin in the logic of this thread.

On a provisional level, this "stand in" seemed willing to consider giving it a try.

cookiess0 - 01:31pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2817 of 2819)

Whats impossible? For one thing the system believes in Hobbes:)

That is why all nations spy:)

rshowalter - 01:32pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2818 of 2819)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

cookies ---There are ways for you to go about proving that. And saying who you are.

cookiess0 - 01:34pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2819 of 2819)

rshowalter - 01:32pm Apr 30, 2001 EST (#2818 of 2818)

It does not matter what you believe. It will be demonstrated in the course of our discussion. I did not impart from my orginal positions when this forum first began.

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