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From: myers@uwvax.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.space,net.politics
Subject: Re: Reagan's Star Wars plan (simple comment)
Message-ID: <293@uwvax.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 9-Jun-84 09:30:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  9 09:30:58 1984
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Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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>Man's fist was replaced by a club, the club was then
>replaced by a spear, a spear by bow and arrow, arrows
>by guns. . . .eventually man discovered Nukes were the
>"ultimate" weapon to use against others.
>
>History shows it takes a BETTER weapon to make another
>weapon absolete!

*None* of the weapons mentioned are "absolete".  Just watch TV for a few
hours and you'll see them all.

Possessing a superior weapon does not make other weapons obsolete, merely
reduces their effectiveness in relative terms.

There's a moral about SW systems here somewhere...

P.S.  Do *you* have enough faith in the programming ability of DOD programmers
(or any programmers for that matter) to trust strategic decision making to
an automated system?

-- 
Jeff Myers
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