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From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Star Wars -> Nuclear war
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 14:29:26 EST
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If today I am your equal or superior, and I know that tomorrow I will be
inferior, I might feel obliged to attack you today, not trusting your
motives for changing your status.

A deployed defensive system may very well be a deterent. The deployment
of that system is an incredibly destabilising action.

-- 
						Mark Roddy
						Net working,
						Just reading the news.

					(harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)