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From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars.
Message-ID: <896@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-May-85 09:06:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.896
Posted: Thu May 30 09:06:31 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 11:19:56 EDT
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Reply-To: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
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Summary: 

In article <5642@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> 	It is very easy for the Soviets to say OK, we'll just deliver
>> the bombs by a different method, (ie. planes, trucks,...), and
>
>Planes and trucks we *know* how to defend against.  Not necessarily easy,
>mind you, but easier than ICBMs.

	WHAT?!?! If we know how to defend against these, How come so
much dope gets smuggled into the country?  With only a small
fraction of the proposed Star Wars budget I could smuggle
humdreds of "bombs" into the US, or any other country, and
plant them, and maintain them in a ready state.  A few might
be intercepted, but the percentage would be good!

>
>> It is even possible that nuclear devices be planted in strategic
>> locations far in advance of hostilities for detination at the 
>> convenient time, *without warning*. ...
>
>Possible, but very hard to keep completely secret.  Hard to do in bulk --
>we're not talking one or two bombs here -- without provoking an immediate
>war, hence useless as a deterrent.  (Smuggling nuclear bombs into an
>unfriendly country sure sounds to me like something that the "recipient"
>would class as an act of war.)
>-- 
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

	Not if they don't know who was doing it. Suppose it was some
members of a terrorist group.  Suppose the bomb were of the
defending countries own design. Also if the bomb has not actually
exploded I doubt that a nation would start a war over it. The
consequences would be deadly.

Cheers,		Fred Williams.