Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ucbvax!medin From: medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: Strategic Arms (reply to Tim Message-ID: <2119@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 17:42:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2119 Posted: Sat Sep 22 17:42:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 02:37:34 EDT References: <238@whuxl.UUCP> <2000034@iuvax.UUCP> <315@fisher.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 17 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 ...!ucbvax!medin medin@ucbarpa