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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan06.212430.15120@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:24:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.144135.14439@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec14.221347.3359@iti.org> <1992Dec16.092029.27518@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec16.202219.2063@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec17.110426.8596@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec17.1 <1992Dec21.164114.1@fnala.fnal.gov> <1992Dec24.022440.27944@ke4zv.u
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- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
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- In article <ewright.726345757@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
-
- While extracting your references to nuclear weapons makes your replies look
- reasonable, extracting said references changes the tone and context of
- my comments and your response...
-
- >In <1993Jan05.172440.14403@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:
- >
- >> A) Raised the level of tension
- >
- >Attacking a US carrier battle group is going to raise tensions
- >a bit anyway, don't you think?
-
- Use of one or more nuclear weapons is going to invite an escalation which the
- attacking force will not wish to solicit, due to the stigma attached to them.
- >
- >> B) Invited attack on any space assets you've got
- >
- >So, how many nations have more space assets to lose (and
- >less ability to quickly replace them) than the United States?
-
- It is likely we have a quick-launch replacement capability, either through
- air breathing mysterious aircraft or (more likely) derivative ballistic missile
- capability, on land and at sea.
-
- It is unlikely the attacking third-world country would have an equalivent
- replacement capability for whatever assets it has.
-
- >
- >> C) Tossed public opinion and the world community off your side;
- >> NOT a good thing.
- >
- >That didn't stop Saddam Hussein from invading Kuwait.
-
- Sure it didn't. However, the UN voted to remove Iraqi troops by the use of
- force and thereby did so accordingly. Had Iraqi troops seized anything less
- than Kuwait City, or removed themselves from Kuwait City without committing
- anything more than token atrocities, Iraq would not be divided into three parts
- today.
-
- It is, by the way, still in three parts, mostly due to the world community
- still being pissed off at Iraq's belligerant attitude.
-
- > A lot of
- >wars might be prevented if Americans came to realize that most
- >of the world doesn't care a fig about "public opinion and the
- >world community."
-
- Ah. But for anything less than a full-scale nuclear exchange (which translates
- to 99.987% of the possible conflicts which will occur in the next 20 years),
- public opinion and what individual nations think DOES count.
-
-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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