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Subject: Re: High Frontier
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Date: Sat, 2-Jun-84 23:23:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  2 23:23:02 1984
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The point is, even if we had a reliable missile defense system (an idea
which is far from practical) it would still not make us immune to nuclear
threats. It would be very easy for a terrorist group or even a government
to smuggle a nuclear device into a country and detonate it on the ground.
In fact, this is much more likely given the technical level of the
countries that are directly involved in international terrorism.

I used to be accused of succumbing to the engineer's mentality of
thinking that all world problems can be solved with technology.
However, I've always believed that the nuclear arms race has no technological
solution, only a political one. Reagan is only trying to cover his
complete failure on this point with a technological red herring.

Phil