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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: RE: Reagan's joke
Message-ID: <296@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 09:21:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: fisher.296
Posted: Tue Aug 28 09:21:21 1984
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Cruise missiles have NOT cut the nuclear lead time to ten minutes.
GLCM's take well over a half-hour to reach Soviet targets from Western
Europe, not ten minutes.

Sevener confused them with Pershings, which have a lead time of as
little as six minutes.

					David Rubin
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