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To: gao seng who wrote (2654)	2/20/2002 3:28:48 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7720

In that case there is a chance that we would not know. However whoever did do this would be taking a risk, that we would find out. Not a risk I would want to take but your right that some of our potential enemies might be more willing to take this risk in certain situations. I don't consider it likely but it is certainly possible and for something so destructive even a slight possibility (as long as it is not vanishingly small) is worth worrying some about and taking reasonable measures to prevent. When I said the Chinese were afraid to attack us I was primarily talking about conventional weapons. I think they are also afraid to risk nuclear destruction. Your right when you say its possible that they could possible attack us with nukes without us knowing who did it, but they would be taking a big risk and using the method you discribe would probably only hurt us not cripple us. The risk would not be worth it for a rational person, but of course we can not always count on having rational enemies. This is an argument against MAD, not for MDS. I think the threat of massive retaliation works pretty good most of the time. However it doesn't work perfectly, we can't count on it working all the time, that is why I am for missile defense. Tim