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From: judd@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Orbital Artillery
Message-ID: <5577@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 12:18:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 12:18:37 1984
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The old problem arises again.  If you ban weapons from space how do you
verify compliance??  This is even harder in space since many usefull tools
are also weapons (eg. small rocket engines).

An uninforcable treaty is rather usless especialy if *you* are willing
to play by the rules but the others are not (specificly the SU, a very
paranoid lot).

Judd Rogers
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