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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wiz who wrote (93103)	11/16/2001 12:13:18 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 132070

Hi wiz; If they come up with stuff like decoys &c., which travel along with the missile, then all we have to do is fit our intercepter missiles with big ol' thermonuclear warheads, and put a boat load of high energy particles through everything in the neighborhood. Yeah, I know that's in violation of various space treaties, to do this, but the fact is that treaties become obsolete all the time. We have no idea what treaties will still be around 20 years from now. -- Carl

To: wiz who wrote (93103)	11/19/2001 11:23:34 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 132070

But then there is the point Mike brought up.. if the guy kills your curve.. do you keep throwing it?.. No you give him inside heat.. If the hitter is the US and the pitcher is someone who would want to attack us with nukes right now the guy's killing everything because we can't pitch (defend). I you have one dominent pitch you might not need another pitch but if you have one good defense you can be attacked elsewhere. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't try for any defense but rather that we have to do what we reasonably can to improve our defenses in a number of areas. Right now we have zero defense against ICBMs. Fortunatly no one like bin Laden has any, but other people who might want to harm the US (or just get the US to back off by making a threat, either direct or just implied by having the capability) either have the weapons or could have them in a few years or a few decades. Tim