Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!ames!al From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: poll (nuclear disarmament verifiability) Message-ID: <833@ames.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 20:07:57 EST Article-I.D.: ames.833 Posted: Thu Feb 28 20:07:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:18:50 EST References: <527@decwrl.UUCP> <680@sdcsvax.UUCP> <610@tty3b.UUCP> <609@mhuxt.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 12 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.