Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mouton.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mouton!karn From: karn@mouton.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: High Frontier Message-ID: <58@mouton.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Jun-84 23:23:02 EDT Article-I.D.: mouton.58 Posted: Sat Jun 2 23:23:02 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 08:05:10 EDT References: <852@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 14 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