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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?

smartalix - 03:15pm Jun 26, 2001 EST (#6061 of 6062)
Anyone who denies you information considers themselves your master

dirac,

It seems you know less about physics than you do about missile defense.

rshowalter - 03:48pm Jun 26, 2001 EST (#6062 of 6062)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I had not intended to be deceptive. But what I said WAS intended to get a reaction from you -- and I'm glad of the one I just got, as far as it goes.

Now, while we're at it -- is there any objection to checking what the capabilities of equipment in the open literature are -- so that we can say -- on a clearly checkable basis

. If the DOD classified labs are to do this thing -- within the framework of what they've publicly disclosed -- then they have to deal with these specific, specifiable problems.

If that is permissable -- then discussions of the credibility of classified claims can be done, in a free society -- and in a way such that -- when questions of fraud reasonably arise, they can be dealt with.

I believe, with the stakes as these stakes are -- that's reasonable.

I happen to be a loyal American, working hard in a cause I think right, and according to standards I believe are loyal. Perhaps the suggestion is unreasonable -- but I don't see why it is.

By the way, if you guys actually want to do better with your information flows, and hit some targets you now cannot hit, you could do with reading this http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/pap2 and it would also help if you took another look at some differential equations.

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