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From: lazarus@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Andrew J &)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: SDI again
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 20:02:55 EDT
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In article <603@nike.UUCP> medin@orion.UUCP (Milo S. Medin) writes:

>We used to spend 50% of the budget on defense routinely...
>
No way.  Do you mean something like the routine year 1944?
Please cite some source for this.  Until the Cold War defense
was a remarkably small part of the budget.  We did not even
have rifles for all of the troops in 1941.

andy