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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?
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lunarchick
- 08:46am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5930
of 5937)
lunarchick@www.com
Putin v Oligarchs
rshowalter
- 08:58am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5931
of 5937) 
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
Putin's got a tough job there -- and with respect to press
freedoms, too.
If he's as careful and concerned about moral rights and wrongs
with the oligarchs, as almarst has been, on issues concerning
press freedoms, on this thread, he may do very well, in the
situation as it is. With results that actually work for the people
involved, according to reasonable standards of efficiency, balance,
and justice.
lunarchick
- 09:02am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5932
of 5937)
lunarchick@www.com
Reading between the lines (above) it seems that Putin would
benefit from communicating CLEARLY to his public with regards to the
ACTION hs is taking, and the WHYs and WHEREFOREs as to each move -
re the improvement of the Russian situation.
lunarchick
- 09:03am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5933
of 5937)
lunarchick@www.com
Photos-week
in review slow loading!
lunarchick
- 09:43am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5934
of 5937)
lunarchick@www.com
http://www.dawn.com/2001/06/24/int12.htm
Setting aside as inconsequential a controversy raised by the Indian
defence ministry identifying China's missile programme as having
caused its own enlarged missile deployment, India and China agreed
to have an expert-level discussion on their boundary dispute
lunarchick
- 09:48am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5935
of 5937)
lunarchick@www.com
According to experts, besides causing massive deaths, radiation
effect of nuclear explosion could also lead to nausea, bloody
diarrhoea and haemorrhages within a few days. It could also result
in leukaemia, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer, as
well as non-fatal diseases such as birth defects, cataract, mental
retardation in young children and more.
It is the right of the people to know what will be the impact of
the 'hypothetical bombing' on the industrial city of Karachi where
several thousand industries are located with almost 13 million
populations.
I was amazed to read that when the Americans came to Bikini
Islands in the Pacific Ocean in 1946 and told its chief that they
were "testing these bombs for the good of the mankind" http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/science8.htm
lunarchick
- 09:49am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5936
of 5937)
lunarchick@www.com
&
Another effect of nuclear tests in the Pacific by the US,
France and the UK was that women gave birth to things like
'octopuses', 'apples', 'turtles' and 'jellyfish' babies, with no
legs or arms or head, and their brain and hearts could be seen
through their transparent skin.
rshowalter
- 10:47am Jun 24, 2001 EST (#5937
of 5937)
Robert Showalter
showalte@macc.wisc.edu
MD4753 rshowalter
6/11/01 2:47pm .. reads in part:
"Some background to the feature on Dark Side of
U.S. Quest for Security: Squalor on an Atoll by HOWARD W.
FRENCH http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/world/11ISLA.html
"If the US has been merciless with the natives, as
it has -- it was also ruthless with its own soldiers.
MD1823 rshowalter
3/31/01 8:12am ... : 235,000 U.S. servicemen were exposed to
nuclear weapons testing during military duty. The people who gave
the orders knew there were risks, but wanted numbers.
"The US record of denying responsiblility for the
damage done to American lives is one example, among many, of how
brutalizing the Cold War was, and continues to be. We need to put
the Cold War behind us.
THE LONG DEATH by Marge Percy from Circles in the Water ,
A.A.Knopf. Inc http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/758
People are trying to put the Cold War behind us -- and the work
on this thread shows some of the committment that some people feel.
At that level, gisterme , almarst , lunarchick
, and I share much common ground.
   
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