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To: JPR who wrote (1631)	6/22/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (2) of 12475

When US refused to sell supercomputers to India for some cockamamie reason, the Indians came up with a workable PARAM computer and eventually conducted nuclear testing . There is a saying in India that one cannot stop a marriage from happening by hiding the comb from the bride or the bridegroom. Not selling the supercomputer did not stop nuclear testing by India. Not so fast! Check out the following. It raises serious doubts as to whether PARAM was ever anything more than a mere stupid box... washingtonpost.com (Says that DEC sold a supercomputer to India in 1996, and that IBM sold one in 1994, upgraded it once in March 1997, and upgraded it again in June 1997...) (Also says, "Virtually every element of India's nuclear and missile programs has been imported directly or copied from imported designs", and "The story in Pakistan is similar.")

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