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From: davidl@tekig.UUCP (David Levadie)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Accidental war
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Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 20:01:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 20:01:39 1983
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Sometime just after the turn of the century there was
an explosion amounting to the equivalent of several
megatons of TNT a few thousand feet in the air over
northern Siberia.  The origin of this explosion is
still the subject of debate, but it was evidently
of extraterrestrial origin.

Do the luminaries we have managing the arms race on
either side have any way of differentiating such
an event from "the real thing?"

(If you're curious about the event, there's a book
out called "The Fire Came By", by somebody or other.
The Russians have spent plenty of time digging
around up there.)