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To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (706)	9/7/1999 10:07:00 AM
From: MikeH	Respond to of 1449

>>the destruction of Los Angeles would be a bad thing.<< Wow, I think some people posting to this thread need families to take up free time on weekends. I read through the China vs. US war threads, and would like to point out some issues I missed. China is wiley, and their biotechnology is almost advanced as ours. They would never directly assualt the US without superior naval assets, a goal that is decades off for them. However, there are a couple of unlikely tatics that plausibly could be employed in the next few years. The US is heavily dependent on gentically engineered agriculture, and China is not yet. It would be to China's advantage to develop a virus that affects certain popular strains of corn and beans grown in the US. The resulting loss of meats from our diet, would be offset by increases grains production, so famine would not result, but unrest and general nervousness would. A second benefit to this would be an economic boom to China's agriculture sector. A more advantageous strategy for China than directly nuking a US city, would be to detonate a nuclear device in space over the east coast. The resulting EMP burst would fry much of the US's banking, commerce and military command structure, even though these are somewhat hardened to EMP attack. Then China could simply claim that a secret experimental nuclear powered satallite malfunctioned, and try and dodge culpability. The loss of efficiency in our commerce system (notably credit card and ATM transactions) would cause hoarding and bank runs, also generating unrest and damaging the US economy.