Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ALMSA-1.ARPA!wmartin From: wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Info on High-Power rocket launch: August '89 in Colorado. Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 89 14:50:57 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 Reading this announcement and description of activities brought to mind an interesting idea: We had been extensively discussing, in past months, the possible use of those Pershing II missiles now being destroyed as part of the arms-limitation agreements. What better PR for the Army than to take one or two of those Pershings to this meet and set them off for the entertainment of the attendees? This would also allow the budding rocketeers to meet the Soviet observers and some of the actual hands-on military missile people, so it would be good "glasnost" PR for the USSR and a recruiting aid for the US. I guess the only thing that could give this a negative result is for the Pershing(s) they take to be duds or to be defective... Since they don't seem to have had any problems in destroying them up to now, that doesn't appear likely. Hmmm... Maybe I should write this up as a DA suggestion... Regards, Will Martin