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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: poll
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Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 19:36:43 EST
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 >From: hu@sdcsvax.UUCP (T. C. Hu)
 >... the Soviet leaders will get desperate,
 >(surprise) unveil a handful of ICBMs (hiding things like that is much
 >easier in a totalitarian state without a free press to go sniveling

No arms control treaty has ever been negotiated that is not verifiable.
Period.   The free press is not considered one of the national technical
means used to verify arms control treaties.  Satellites and listening
devices turn out to be much more effective.

The idea that the Soviets could "hide" something like "a handful of ICBM's"
is absurd.  It is the rough equivalent of thinking you could walk through
one of those airport metal detectors with a 20/20 shotgun nestled under
your coat.  

Mike Kelly