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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: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:40:32 GMT
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- In <1993Jan07.203533.10511@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:
-
- >You're being silly. If you're going to treat the nuke as "just another
- >weapon" you don't need the Clancyesque plot. Just nuke the friggin' carrier
- >and be done with it. It's only full-scale war, after all, right Ed?
-
- Well, Tom Clancy at least understands the technology and how it works.
-
- Just finding a carrier at sea, let alone hitting it, is not easy.
- Don't believe everything Dan Rather tells you. It's a moving
- target, which will probably move out of the target area between
- the time you launch your ballistic missile and the time the warhead
- lands.
-
- Hitting a satellite is almost trivial by comparison.
-
-
-
- >It is not for nothing DARPA has a love with microsats and ways to get them
- >quickly into orbit. And what DARPA is doing is in the sunshine.
-
- Microsats are incapable of replacing photorecon satellites. The
- laws of physics prevent it. To get adequate resolution, you need
- a large mirror (or large radar). Black programs use the same laws
- of physics as everybody else.
-
-
-
- >Of course. So why did we get the UN to rubber stamp it first? C'mon Ed,
- >stop helping me out here. We really didn't NEED to get the UN's blessing,
- >did we?
-
- Of course we didn't. The United States has gone to war numerous
- times in the past. It has never needed permission of the United
- Nations before. It was George Bush who set that (dangerous) precendent.
-
-
-
- >>Besides, your claim was that "international public opinion" would
- >>*prevent* nations like Iraq from making hostile acts.
-
- >Prevent a degree of hostile acts. Why didn't the Iraqis use chemical weapons
- >against allied forces in Desert Storm?
-
- Not because he was afraid someone would say something bad about
- him at a UN cocktail party.
-
- Hint: the people who planned the initial airstrikes were not
- complete idiots.
-
-
-
-