Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.followup Subject: Re: Star Wars Defense Message-ID: <288@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Aug-84 13:43:13 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.288 Posted: Sat Aug 25 13:43:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Sep-84 09:01:16 EDT References: <1742@tekig1.UUCP> <282@fisher.UUCP> Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 22 Fine. So we negotiate a ban on space weapons systems. So the Sovs see the next Space Shuttle launch, cry "Space Weapon!!!!", and launch their space-borne defense system. They seem to be good at that kind of insanity. Remember Eisenhower? He worked it out with the Sovs so we would mutually stop testing nuclear weapons... so the Russians went ahead and tested new bombs when it pleased them to do so. I expect the same if we ban space weapons... and then we'll be caught with our satellites down when the Sovs launch their nuclear weapons, wipe out our launched weapons via satellite and knock out any that did NOT get launched with their own bombs, and take us over. THIS is sanity? I am not in favor of unlimited arms buildups, but I have to look at the Orwellians looking at us through their gunsights and plan accordingly. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery: decvax!cwruecmp{!atvax}!ncoast!bsa: R0176@CSUOHIO.BITNET 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 <> (216) 524-1416