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From: sjs@u1100s.UUCP (Stan Switzer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Phased Array Radar
Message-ID: <185@u1100s.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 16:45:12 EST
Article-I.D.: u1100s.185
Posted: Thu Feb 21 16:45:12 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Feb-85 05:04:16 EST
References: <134@rtech.UUCP> <29200205@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: sjs@u1100s.UUCP (Stan Switzer)
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ
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Keywords: ABM Treaty
Summary: 

In article <29200205@uiucdcs.UUCP> renner@uiucdcs.UUCP writes:
> 
> >  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.
> >  				-- Mike Kelly (mjk@tty3b)
> 
> The 1972 ABM treaty prohibits deployment of anti-ballistic missile
> systems.  The Soviets are building a large phased-array radar system in
> Siberia -- very nice for tracking ICBMS; ...

Actually, as I understand it, this PAR is not in Siberia, and that is the
problem.  It is OK to deploy PARs looking outward from the frontiers
of the country.  The US has many (see recent Sci. American article).
Point of intrest, ours have a field of view of about 120 degrees,
well into the interior.

Anyway, I don't really understand why there is this restriction, unless
the US thinks it will make it difficult for the USSR to build them.
After all, who wants to build a PAR in remotest Siberia?

Anyone out there who can clear this up?

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