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From: ln63fkn@sdcc7.UUCP (Paul van de Graaf)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: A High Tech Maginot Line
Message-ID: <216@sdcc7.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 07:39:07 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  8 07:39:07 1985
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Reply-To: ln63fkn@sdcc7.UUCP (Paul van de Graaf)
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In article <34395@lanl.ARPA> jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>The feasibility of SDI is still seriously in question, but the failure
>to stop drug smuggling in not a counter-example.  These are two different
>tasks with two completely different objectives.

I recall that the war-head in a cruise missile weighs about 350 pounds.
Considering that TONS of marajuana are smuggled into the U. S. every day...
What's to stop Joe terrorist, or for that matter the Soviets, from smuggling
hundreds of war-heads into the U. S. and setting them off in choice locations.
Spy Satellites might help you in this area, but SDI certainly won't.

Paul van de Graaf		sdcsvax!sdcc7!ln63fkn		U. C. San Diego