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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?

possumdag - 08:35pm Jun 25, 2001 EST (#6040 of 6042)
Possumdag@excite.com

Moral forcing .... ? I get the picture .. 'bodies' that are built on a construct of lies and deception have to seek truth and accept it .. then they can move on, when they are reading off the same page, and everyone can accept a 'common' past.

possumdag - 08:49pm Jun 25, 2001 EST (#6041 of 6042)
Possumdag@excite.com

I'm for truth ... more appetizing than lies!

rshowalter - 08:55pm Jun 25, 2001 EST (#6042 of 6042)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

The key reason I work. Especially concern for risk , risk that I hope is already reduced, because of work Dawn and I have done on this thread.
SP367 rshowalter "Science News Poetry" 3/1/01 2:07pm

Risks are real, and not well assesssed:
SP365 rshowalter "Science News Poetry" 3/1/01 11:58am

But we can do better:
MD262 rshowalter "Science News Poetry" 2/14/01 7:18am

In clear: Lying is more dangerous than people think, and soaks up more attention than people know. We can do less of it. We can send in clear - the message, almost always, will be peaceful. And complex cooperation, now so often terminated with deceptive sequences, could happen more often.

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