[.cnI redruM]

THere is a world of difference between aiming a weapon and bore-sighting it to within exceptable tolerance.

Aiming the weapon, points it in a desired direction and somewhat brackets where it will strike.

Bore-sighting the weapon correctly guaruntees it will land within a desired tolerance of where it is aimed.

This allows China to specifically suppress point targets with their nuclear arsenal, rather than attempting to blanket a given area.

The net effect of this treachery is that the Chinese are able to put the fear of God into the US for 1/5 what it would have cost the USSR.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Thanks for the "layman" explanation. That really helped!! Do you mind helping out a tad more? I trust your expertise.

Knowing that Clinton sold the technology he did to the Chinese, and it being my understanding that this gave them an edge they EXTREMELY desired and did NOT previously have.. what advantage did they GAIN?

I think you can better explain this than I can.

I'm not doing it to well. (I'm doing a search as we speak to find old articles from Congressional Hearings we had on this to the security breaches this posed and the damage it did to our technology race (?).

FRegards

[Poohbah]

This allows China to specifically suppress point targets with their nuclear arsenal, rather than attempting to blanket a given area.

Actually, the same effect could be had by mounting a BHW (Big Honkin' Warhead) on the missile...which they already had done (5 megatons worth). To give you an idea how big that is...drop one on the District of Columbia, and you'll break windows in Baltimore.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

I found the links below pretty interesting.

Note; on the Chinese report by the DOD in June of 2002, I found the "ommission" of the Loral Intelsat satellite that crashed on lift off in February 1996 interesting (a Chinese Long March rocket). Read on,... interesting stuff:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3958439a559e.htm

http://www.insightmag.com/news/384405.html