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From: west@utcsri.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Star Wars
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 00:47:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 00:47:08 1985
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Summary: 


  Isn't much of this worry unfounded?  Is there any indication that the system
is even going to work?  It seems kind of funny that I haven't heard of any
laser physicists talk about the feasability on either side.  Since all the
US cities can still be nuked by sub launched and cruise missiles, even if
does sort of work (i.e only 4 times overkill instead of 40), it's not going
to stop the US from being vaporized in the event of war.
  In my opinion, the only point is what the money would have been spent on
otherwise.  If it was just going to be more nukes, then why not have them
spend it on something relatively useless (and helpful to laser physicists!)
rather than just making more boring bombs.  Then again, if there was any
hope that the money would have gone to something interesting, I would 
reconsider my opinion.
  Tom West