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To: Neocon who wrote (84404)	7/28/2000 1:57:02 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

We learn from our mistakes. IF your tire fails it is good to know the causal chain that brought it about. Was MAD an optimal solution of risk-reward? No, I don't think so. Don't let Reagan get too much credit. It was obvious by the 70's that MAD was a stable system that was limited by economics and kill ratios were silly. Even at p=0.05 we had enough joint tonnage to crispify everything. Missile reduction started us down the right road of lower paranoia. So did the opening of China. USSR and China were hardly buddies. We actually released to the world (read:Soviets) information theory regarding the making unreliable hardware systems more reliable using distribution and redundancy. We wanted them to have reliable systems. Oooops, what's that bogie?!! Naw, you don't want that in a hair-trigger system. A very strange and scary chess match, I agree. But one with lessons.