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From: jlg@lanl-a.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: space station
Message-ID: <3392@lanl-a.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 19:46:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 19:46:46 1984
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Why would the pentagon regard a space station as vulnerable?  It really isn't.
There aren't weapon systems designed to attack deep space objects (even
satellite killers only operate in LEO).  Constructing such a weapon system 
could only have one purpose (to attack the space station) and would
be politically difficult.  Finally, the construction of a manned space station 
would make it difficult to attack (thick radiation and meteor shielding,
and perhaps some magnetic field generators to push large spacebourne objects
from a distance).  All these things make a space station MUCH less vulnerable
than many important earthbound targets.

Besides all this -- attacking the space station would be considered an act of
war,  something that would be foolish given the present (and probably future)
state of the world.