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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (3753)	1/28/2001 11:24:39 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It would have prevented them from launching a first strike, but MAD was already doing that. But MAD is no longer mutual if one side has a working BMD. And a BMD can be quite effective without one laser or one missle being fired. If the Soviets at some point had gained a decisive advantage in the balance of terror, do you doubt that they (possibly through proxies) would have hesitated to "unify" Germany? Suppose the US had its BMD during the Hungarian Revolution or the Prague Spring. I think the outcome of the those events would have been quite different: the US would have made it clear to the Soviets that their intervention would be unacceptable. And as for overthrowing Communist regimes, there would be no need to involve American troops. The US was slow, but it eventually learned the art of war by proxy; witness Afghanistan.