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To: Dayuhan who wrote (85386)	8/15/2000 1:03:53 AM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 108807

I agree Steven. It appears that we greatly overestimated the strength of Russia's nuclear threat during the cold war, based again on faulty reports. I was just reading an article in Popular Science, where the reporter visited Russia's rocket factory. We tried as hard as we could to find out where they were making and testing those huge rockets during the cold war, but failed. We assumed that the facilities would be hidden somewhere in the forests. Instead they were being built right in the Moscow suburbs in what looked from the outside to be a run of the mill run down apartment complex. Nearby was an ordinary looking cooling tower where the exhaust from the firing tests was sent. By mixing lots of water with the rocket exhaust, it looked like any ordinary cooling tower emission. They managed to keep the decibel level to 40db outside of the building. Pretty clever. Del