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From: els@pur-phy.UUCP (Eric Strobel)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: ASAT treaties
Message-ID: <1363@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 14:31:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 14:31:06 1984
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  I beg to differ, but I recall that the Soviets actually tested a FOBS and
were thought to have deployed some.  We would have no way of telling which
of their missiles are FOBS until they pass over head and rain warheads down
on us!!  And FOBS can DEFINITELY alter the balance of things.  A seemingly 
innocent launch, satellite passes over head just as Soviets cut loose with
everything, satellite breaks up into a bunch of RV's, a good number of blasts
are done for EMP, SAC & NORAD & White House get hit, without effective command
structure we just have to ride out the attack and see what happens!
   There are many holes in that scenario, but I'll bet most of them could be
fixed.

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