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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:02:33 GMT
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- In <1993Jan06.212430.15120@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- Oh? Suppose you see two headlines in the New York Times.
-
- One says, "6000 sailors perish in sinking of US carrier group."
-
- The other says, "Nuclear weapon used to disable unmanned satellite."
-
- Which would set your blood to boiling more?
-
-
- >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.
-
- The US Navy considered coverting one Poseidon missile on each
- submarine to a satellite launcher, however this was never carried
- out. (Unless it was done in secret.) However, no US SLBM or ICBM
- has the payload capacity to replace a large communications or
- reconnaissance satelite.
-
-
- >Sure it didn't. However, the UN voted to remove Iraqi troops by the use of
- >force and thereby did so accordingly.
-
- No, the US voted to remove Iraqi troops and the United States did so
- accordingly. (With help from some of our allies, yes, but no serious
- observer suggests that we would have failed without that help.)
-
- Besides, your claim was that "international public opinion" would
- *prevent* nations like Iraq from making hostile acts.
-
-
- >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.
-
- Keep saying that, and people like Saddam Hussein will keep
- showing you that you're wrong.
-