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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (13730)	11/15/2004 7:47:03 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) of 20773

Thanks for a well thought and well written response. In the late '80s I was at Bell Northern Research and one of the topics we discussed in details was the SDI. Although the researchers there were not directly involved in the field, they did have the theoretical background to analyze it and the conclusions were identical to yours. The comment from one of the researchers always rings in my ears, "It is a good thing we can easily show SDI cannot work and is just pork for the defense industry. Because if I were the Russians and I believed for a minute that an effective defensive missile system was a possibility, I'd nuke US with everything I had right away". When I looked at him, he said from the Russian's perspective the preemptive attack would be the most prudent thing to do before US renders their nukes worthless and beats them into submission. Which brings us to this point: any technology that hugely shifts the military balance of power to one side will be deemed very provocative by others and in itself may cause the war it is advertised to prevent. ST

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