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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: ACCIDENTAL LAUNCH - (nf)
Message-ID: <4394@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 04:27:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 04:27:48 1983
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uiucdcs!renner    Dec  9 03:37:00 1983

/***** uiucdcs:net.politics / ihuxq!ken /  7:20 am  Dec  8, 1983 */

As things (missiles) stand now, the time from any launch to impact is 
on the order of hours.
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This is not true.  An ICBM such as the Minuteman II or the SS-18 has a total
flight time closer to 30 minutes.  The amount of warning time will almost
certainly be less, since we can depend on the Soviets to take out our
early-warning IR satellites with either ground-based lasers or hunter-killer
satellites (both tested, both presumably operational).

Scott Renner
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