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From: ccs025@ucdavis.UUCP (Martin Van Ryswyk)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: A High Tech Maginot Line
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 18:37:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 18:37:38 1985
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> > This brings up an interesting side issue, a reason why it is *important* for
> > the US to have operational antisatellite capability (!).
> 
> I've got a better solution. Let's establish a treaty that bans all further
> tests of anti-satellite weapons by either side. That'll effectively keep
> the Soviets from developing the "space blockade" capability of which you
> speak.
> 
> Phil

    Sure it will, just like the ABM Treaty of 1972 kept the Soviets
from implementing ABM devices.  They have violated it several times.
Perhaps I am overly pesimistic of my fellow human beings, but I do not
trust the Soviets.  They are our undeclared enemy at this point in a
very cold 'Cold War'.  While the recent talks in Geneva have promised a
change, however so slight, in attitudes...we still have ICBM's aimed at
all their big cities.  Why should they adhere to a treaty with us if
it is not beneficial to them?  I do not think that treaties of any kind
with the Soviet Union can be a cure. We will end up without and they
will end up with.  I see it as the gun control laws on a large scale.
If you outlaw guns, only the criminals will have them.  I realize there
are to ways of looking at this, I just happen to advocate one.  Please
correct my logic if you see a flaw.
  One last note, I do not think verification clauses are worth didly.
We have undeniably verified a phased array radar in Siberia that is
contrary to the '72 Treaty, yet nothing has been done.
 
                -Searching for an answer-

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