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From: toby@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Toby Harness)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Sea Launched Missles
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Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 13:36:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 13:36:17 1984
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This has already gotten too far away from net.SPACE.  I think it is an 
interesting discussion, but it doesn`t really belong here.  How about
bopping this over to net.misc or net.politics (since us USENET types
cannot post to fa.arms-d)?

To add fule to the fire:  the suggestions (ASAT`s, SLM`s, baby-subs, etc.)
are all ways to preserve MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction), if indeed it
still exists.  If you go in for MAD (a.k.a Balance of Terror), what`s
wrong with germs?  Germ war is no more an abomination than nuclear war,
and stockpiling and protecting (i.e assuring their release) would be
*much* cheaper than building ICBM`s and their ilk.  And if done right
the killer germs would only affect homo.sap, giving them post-Armageddon
cockroaches some competition.


Toby Harness		Ogburn/Stouffer Center, University of Chicago
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