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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: poll  (nuclear disarmament verifiability)
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 20:07:57 EST
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I think it may be possible to verify almost any arms agreement if
we're willing to spend enough time, effort and money.  How about
tracking every truck, plane, and train in the Soviet Union continuously
all the time and analyzing the results?  It's feasible, if expensive, and
it would certainly make cheating extremely difficult.

How about manned space stations observing the U.S.S.R. every second
of the day with the best instruments we can design and produce?  The eye
is a marvelous sensor and you get a brain for free.  There was
once a project along these lines ... the MOL (manned orbiting laboratory).
I think it was Air Force.