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From: rivero@kovacs.UUCP (Michael Foster Rivero)
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Subject: Re: Star-Wars
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 12:00:33 EST
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	  Regarding the Soviets potential SDI capability.

	  Yes, the USSR  has  test  fired  an  anti-satallite  weapon.
	There is still some speculation that Seasat 1 was knocked  out
	by  such a weapon.  In any case, all of these rumors and tests
	can be grouped under the heading "rattling the spears", i.e. a
	show  of  potential  force.  They rattle, then we rattle, then
	they rattle, then we rattle.  This is  called,  "Strengthening
	our bargaining position".

	  The main reason certain strategic weapons are bargained away
	at the conferance table is that neither side wants the weapons
	to be developed, usually for ecenomic reasons.  The idea  is,"
	If  you  do not deploy weapon X, and I do not deploy weapon Y,
	then both sides can build hydroelectric dams instead."

	  With the exception of the actual contractors involved,  most
	people,in  both  governments would rather spend their military
	budgets on civilian programs  instead;  Hospitals,  Utilities,
	Colleges, Better health services, and the Space Programs, etc.

	  Ultimatly, at some point, the U.S.  and  the  U.S.S.R.  will
	probably  ally with each other, if for no other reason than to
	jointly police  the  third  worlds  use  of  nuclear  weapons.
	Unfortunatly.  it  will probably take a limited nuclear war to
	make both countries see the light.

	  But, like the Krupps and the  Colts  discovered  during  the
	last two World Wars, there is a lot more money to be made from
	war than from peace!  Hence, SDI.