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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 - 09:06am Jul 1, 2001 EST (#6379 of 6381)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Lots of times, people get stumped because things they think they know, and take for granted, mislead them. And cause them to mislead others.

That's a reason why getting right answers (which means checked answers) is important.

I'm going to take my time, and try to get some basics straight. I'll eat breakfast, too. A lot of the problems that stump people involve "paradigm conflict" -- something you can search on this thread. (Kuhn, paradigm, morally forcing.)

lunarchick - 10:04am Jul 1, 2001 EST (#6380 of 6381)
lunarchick@www.com

Trust the breakfast isn't virtual ...very interested in the next posts ... will catch up with this board 'down the track'. dR

rshowalter - 12:05pm Jul 1, 2001 EST (#6381 of 6381)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

It was a good breakfast.

While I'm writing, and trying to be careful about it, maybe somebody will be interested in these posts,

MD507 kalter.rauch 11/19/00 6:15am .... MD508 rshowalter 11/19/00 1:53pm
MD509 rshowalter 11/19/00 2:03pm .... MD510 rshowalter 11/19/00 2:05pm

and maybe particularly in a "slide show" on a math problem that has occupied me for my adult life -- because I was told that the question it deals with might well be -- probably was, the most important military problem (and military risk) facing the United States -- the difference between having an Air Force, and not having one. I was told that in 1968. http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/nterface There's an interesting error, maybe, right at the end of the slide show.

Steve Kline wrote a letter for me that partly dealt with that math http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/klinerec

Some might like to read a eulogy I gave at Steve's Memorial Service at Stanford Chapel -- it tells something about how Steve was, and how we worked together. http://www.wisc.edu/rshowalt/klineul

Just in case anybody wants to read something about my background, while I'm writing.

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