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To: combjelly who wrote (139522)	10/2/2001 11:45:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 1580596

we might, on a really good day, take out 90% of those warheads. Maybe less, maybe a little more... ...The problem is that the same number of people on the globe are going to survive whether we build SDI or not" So we might shoot down 90% of the warheads but the number of people who are going to survive will not be any different?!? Yeah, North Korea or Libya could do the same, but that seems to be a rather brain dead way to commit national suicide. Or China could possibly deter the US from interfering against an invasion of Taiwan by even the threat (directly spoken or very subtle and idirect) of a nuclear attack. I agree a nuclear missile attack on the US is unlikely but its so devastating that we should do what we can to protect against it. A Soviet invasion of western Europe was also unlikely at least why we had nukes, but that didn't stop us from spending enormous amounts of money to deter an invasion or defend against one. Also a month ago I would have thought that the world trade center getting destroyed by hijacked aircraft was unlikely. Tim

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