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From: medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: An Alternative to the MX
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 19:42:18 EDT
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Summary: Subs are all you need


Mike, you say that our subs can take out the top 50 Soviet cities.
So?  Thats not the aim of our strategy.  Subs are not counterforce
capable systems.  Even if the missiles were accurate enough, the
poor C^3I prevents them from being used as a counterforce system,
as ICBM's are.  I won't even talk about the small yield the
SLBM warheads have...  When will people realize that MAD is not
the way we do business anymore...  Sigh.  Even if we did, the
top 50 Soviet cities do not represnt a significant amount
of population damage... But, I've talked about that before...


						Milo