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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Expertise, Nuclear War, and Casualties
Message-ID: <1797@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 11:06:20 EST
Article-I.D.: burdvax.1797
Posted: Mon Nov 12 11:06:20 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 19:08:46 EST
References: <2092@randvax.UUCP> <randvax.2093>
Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Organization: Burroughs Corp. - SDG/Devon
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Summary: 

In article <randvax.2093> rohn@randvax.UUCP (Laurinda Rohn) writes:
>
>>From Tim Sevener whuxl!orb
>>3)Is it true that the Soviets now have superiority over the U.S.?
>>  Here are some pertinent facts on this question:
>>      the U.S. has approximately 30,000 nuclear warheads
>>      the Soviet Union has approximately 25,000 nuclear warheads
>
>Mr. Sevener has fallen into the all-too-common trap of what's known as
>"beancounting."  ...

	Not to mention the fact that Mr. Sevener's count is wrong.  Even Mrs.
Ferraro during the Nightline interview a few weeks ago admitted the number
to be Soviets-29,000; US-21,000 with the Soviets adding to their number
while our count has remainded more or less the same over the past four
years.

	Kopel: "Are we building or adding?"

	Ferraro: "I say we're building."

	The implication being that while we are replacing older weapons
with new and maintaining our count at level the Soviets are adding new
warheads and increasing their overall total.  So if you're playing the 
numbers game the Soviets are ahead in the warhead count.

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Tom Albrecht 		Burroughs Corp.
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