Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site tty3b.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!ltuxa!tty3b!mjk
From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Ballistic Missile Defense
Message-ID: <493@tty3b.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 11:54:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: tty3b.493
Posted: Mon Sep 10 11:54:10 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 11:22:01 EDT
References: <204@tekigm.UUCP>, <1822@ucbvax.ARPA>
Organization: Teletype Corp., Skokie, Ill
Lines: 19

Milo Medin writes that protecting land-based ICBMs is very important since
their so-called vulnerability means the Soviets are more likely to launch
a strike against them "because they're so easy to take out."

Look at this from the Soviet point of view.   We have submarines which we
are virtually certain they can't track.   Reason: we are ahead of the Soviets
in almost every important technology area and WE can't track them.  The
missiles on those submarines are enough to take out the 50 largest cities in
the USSR.  So of course they're going to launch a strike against our land-based
missiles, right?  What have the got to lose but their 50 largest cities?
Amazed they haven't done it already.

A complete lack of common sense seems to be a requirement for high positions
in the U.S. military-industrial complex.

Mike Kelly