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To: tsigprofit who wrote (13727)11/15/2004 6:30:09 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
How are they a threat when we've gone through decades of cold war?

Mutually assured destruction rather solved that one; in the case of a rogue nation its not even a fair fight.

As for being defensive, that's a fine line. One country's defensive weapon is another country's strategic problem. If nukes are deterrents, when you remove the deterrent value (lets say, for argument, that the US could shoot down 100% of all incoming ICBMs / BMs) then suddenly one side can use these weapons with impunity.

What's that I hear people crying out? "Oh no, we'd never premptively attack another nation". Iraq rather puts that notion to rest.

ABM systems have the potential to start a new arms race. How Russia and China view this, in private, I wonder...
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