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To: Paul Ross

Thanks for the heads up to your post #29.

Mike


35 posted on 07/21/2006 8:24:35 AM PDT by IrishMike (Democrats .... Stuck on Stupid, RINO's ...the most vicious judas goats)
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To: IrishMike; johnny7
You're welcome, and if you have the bandwidth [8 megabyte file] and interest in the actual report of the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense, it can be downloaded here at:

http://www.ifpa.org/pdf/IWGreport.pdf

This rhetorical observation from the High Frontier website asks the right question:

In 1992, the most mature SDI program in terms of technology and of near-term deployment feasibility, Brilliant Pebbles, was killed by then-Senate Armed Services Chairman Sam Nunn (D-GA). High Frontier Chairman Hank Cooper, then head of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, has expressed on numerous occassions that this program has been proven in testing, and represents the best option for an effective near-term defense for the United States against the ballistic missile threat. Recently, in hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz specifically mentioned a space-based kinetic kill program. The research, he said, "had been dormant for some time". Yet, the technology exists now, with a minimum of research needed to be ready for deployment. Will we see the resurrection of the Brilliant Pebbles program?

38 posted on 07/21/2006 8:36:09 AM PDT by Paul Ross (We cannot be for lawful ordinances and for an alien conspiracy at one and the same moment.-Cicero)
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