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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
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Subject: Re: Re: Star Wars Defense Plan
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Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 19:48:12 EDT
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> Nuclear weapons ranging in the megatons simply aren't defensive.
According to the MAD doctrine they are.

> Oh come on, as long as they don't have VAXen, Holland is just too small
> for their crude missile guidance systems to give them any chance to hit us...
I'm glad it your life and/or freedom you want to bet on that.

> Of course the US would, blowing only Europe to pieces without risking too
> much for themselves.
Under currently believed scenerios, once the ball game starts, we're all going
to play.  The nuclear winter doesn't play favorites.

> Balance? Outweigh you mean.
Obviously, you believe that Holland's forces will beat back the Russian Army,
it is, however, much larger than Germany's forces were in WWII... and you
didn't do so well then.

> A nuclear threat directed by the SU against Europe is a threat against
> themselves.
No answer needed.

> What would they have done if it had been a Russian civil aircraft "apparently
> on spying mission" a la KAL007?
Swede's haven't shot down many planes recently, do you think they are going
to start now?  You really are paranoid.

Richard Brower		Fortune Systems
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