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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: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:10:49 GMT
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- In <C0Js9I.87@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
-
- >Define "adequate". Microsat levels of resolution should be adequate
- >for many military requirements. Tactical commanders don't care about
- >the license-plate numbers on the tanks...
-
- If you're planning air strikes with smart weapons, 10-meter resolution
- isn't going to cut it. You need *which* one of those buildings is the
- command bunker.
-
- Microsats can supplement our current recon satellites, but can't
- replace them.
-
-
- >Careful here... I don't know exactly what legal maneuvers took place
- >when the US formally joined the UN, but if the UN Charter has the status
- >of a Senate-ratified treaty, that means it has the force of law in the
- >US... and one of the clauses in there is a renunciation of war as an
- >instrument of national policy.
-
- Well, not really. The "supreme law of the land" is the US Constitution,
- not international treaties -- no matter what the State Department might
- tell you. It pretty specifically spells out warmaking powers in terms
- that can't be ammended by a simple act of Congress.
-
- All of which is irrelevent because, as I said, George Bush de facto
- surrendered US sovereignty in 1992.
-
-