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To: Neocon who wrote (39191)	3/18/1999 3:04:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

One of my brothers is an EE at LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Labs) since the middle 80s, and about Reagan's vision of a "starwars" laser-defense system, he said that the concept was at least 20 years away from being doable, given current states of technology in the middle 80s. I trust my brother knows what he's talking about, since he has worked extensively with lasers, both high-power lasers that can "splash" metal on contact (I've seen the result), but lasers that shoot neutron beams into the reactor core of a fusion nuclear reactor. Anyway, though he scoffed at the concept of "Starwars", he always said that he was for it (funding the project) , because it created many great careers for people in scientific research fields. So whether or not they ever get a workable "Missile Defense", I'm all for researching it. Might as well pay people to do good scientific research, rather than have Clinton give it all away to countries all over the world, who hate us all the more for "meddling" in their affairs.

To: Neocon who wrote (39191)	3/18/1999 4:21:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

From an Office of Technology Assessment report entitled "SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software" (1988): Finding 1:After 30 Years of Ballistic Missile Defense research, including the first few years of the Strategic Defense Initiative, defense scientists and engineers have produced impressive technical achievements, but questions remain about meeting the goals of SDI... Finding 2: Given optimistic assumptions, the kind of first phase system that the SDI Office is considering might be technically deployable in the 1995- 2000 period... Finding 9: There is broad agreement in the technical community that significant parts of the research being carried out under the SDI are in the national interest. There is disagreement abotu whether or not this research is best carried out within a program that is strongly oriented toward supporting an early 1990's BMD deployment decision, and that includes system development as well as research elements...