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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?

lunarchick - 11:21pm Sep 3, 2001 EST (#8408 of 8422)
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The man in the street, the woman in the street, the child in the street, - Voters ... they have an understanding regarding the implications of GERM warfare. When the BwshAdmin critters came through Aussie a few weeks ago, the Government here would NOT entertain anything the Americans wanted to impose re GERM warfare - because the public have negative perception.

Missile on the other hand are just as negative. Yet somehow the public-s of the world have been conned into believing there's virtue here.

rshowalter - 11:26pm Sep 3, 2001 EST (#8409 of 8422)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD7381 rshowalter 7/24/01 1:34pm

" When the Soviet Union fell, and everyone, on all sides, had so much hope, we didn't have an end game -- and the United States was so tied up with lies, that it could not sort out problems before it -- or help the Russians sort out their problems."

We should work to fix things now -- not go on making them worse.

I've suggested in MD6808-10 rshowalter 7/9/01 4:43pm . . . that gisterme , who has posted so extensively on this thread, could not have done so, without the knowledge and backing of the very highest levels of the Bush administration, including Rice , Rumsfeld , Armitage , Wolfowitz , Hadley , and their bosses.

MD7009 rshowalter 7/13/01 2:07pm . . . MD7010 rshowalter 7/13/01 2:11pm
MD7014 rshowalter 7/13/01 8:46pm

By facing some facts gracefully -- facts that are coming out anyway, and making reasonable accomodations, in the interests of the whole world, including nearly all American citizens, we could have a much safer, more reasonable world.

Why doesn't it happen? The number of possibilities is getting narrowed down.

rshowalter - 11:27pm Sep 3, 2001 EST (#8410 of 8422)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

really out.

lunarchick - 12:43am Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8411 of 8422)
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'when the cat's away the mice will play'

lunarchick - 01:22am Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8412 of 8422)
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Intercepted Missiles will fall on ....

lunarchick - 03:58am Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8413 of 8422)
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ABM treaty YES/NO vote http://www.sciam.com/

Should the U.S. abandon the ABM treaty without Russia's cooperation?

New brains for old!

lunarchick - 04:22am Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8414 of 8422)
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Symmetry underlines many of the ways we think about both art and science. Of the four dimensions which we normally use to define the world we live in, that is, up and down, in and out, left and right, and time, only time is inherently asymmetrical, moving relentlessly forward, never back. Thus if we know the spatial properties of one half of an object we can infer, in science, or anticipate, in art, what the other half may be like, even if it’s unseen or inaccessible

... like a missile perhaps?

markkuang - 04:36am Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8415 of 8422)

NMD is just the pavement of "Space Superiority", Pentagon's real aim is the satellites of others.

lunarchick - 04:41am Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8416 of 8422)
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FINLAND: Putin visit see

lunarchick - 04:47am Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8417 of 8422)
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Last March, President Vladimir Putin appointed Sergei Ivanov as Russia's new defense minister. It was believed that Putin had chosen his right-hand man, who as Security Council Secretary had devised the reform plan, to speed up reorganization of the Defense Ministry. Today it's pretty clear that most of these assumptions were not entirely correct. It transpired that Russian officials were deliberately lying about the strength of their armed forces. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/08/30/009.html

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