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- From: cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil)
- Subject: Re: Early Warning of missiles and meteors
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.012039.10602@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:20:39 GMT
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- In article <bzaYe-yS/@clmqt.marquette.MI.US> stick@clmqt.marquette.MI.US (Stick) writes:
- > SAC's mission was never characterized as offensive except by our old
- >opponents, the Warsaw Pact. All planning was geared towards retaliation,
- >not initiation.
- General George LeMay's original SIOP for SAC called for a massive preemptive
- strike with hundreds of aircraft at a time when the Soviet Union had less than
- a dozen nuclear weapons. That sounds ``offensive'' to me. This belongs in
- talk.politics...
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- Physics & Astronomy, U North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA
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