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From: medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Strategic Arms (reply to Tim
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Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 17:42:29 EDT
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You say that its precisely because the MX is vulnerable to a first
strike that its a first strike weapon.  Very good!  Sounds like
a reason for BMD doesnt it?  Also, this fixed silo stuff is
not the administration's idea.  They wanted Dense Pack (and the
follow-on BMD system).  If you dont like fixed basing, write
you're congressman and tell him to cooperate with the president
on BMD issues.  

The bottom line is that the people who complain about MX and
trident being first strike weapons are just plain opposed to them
first strike capability or not.  They dont want any modernization.
That first strike stuff is all smokescreen...

					Milo Medin
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