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To: TobagoJack who wrote (59688)	1/30/2005 7:33:31 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 74559

Jay, Re: we will soon have ...<<shoulder-fired/camera-guided tactical nuke>> The U.S. Army started experimenting with such devices in the 1950s. The zeal for these weapons rapidly diminished when wiser men pointed out that those hurling nuclear artillery were going to end up just as dead as the intended targets. "Close" may be good enough for hand grenades and horseshoes, but certainly has its limitations with nucular bullets.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (59688)	1/30/2005 9:24:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, <<shoulder-fired/camera-guided tactical nuke>> is not the sort of progress I have in mind. I was thinking ... <<Have we really come only that far in a billion years? >> of the peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love type progress, powered by phragmented photon cyberspace. I grant you though, in the Year of the Feather Duster, with manouevres in planning, such a device might well be useful. Who will win? Taiwan, China, USA, nobody, or H12N8? Who will lose? Most of us by the look of it. Mqurice