Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcvax!piet From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: net.politics,eunet.politics Subject: Re: Nuclear arms race Message-ID: <5678@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 06:07:11 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.5678 Posted: Mon Feb 6 06:07:11 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 01:33:07 EST References: <1745@tekig.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 25 Taken from net.general: >.....until the Russian government abandons its policy of >severely restricting the flow of information and people into, >out of and through the Soviet Union. OK, I have a proposal: - right now the USA will stop their policy of not delivering computers to the SU; - they will offer say 50 VAXen for installation on their universities and highschools; - an equal number of autodiallers will come with those machines (perhaps the European electronics industry may drop in here); - Bell Labs will provide them with Unix(tm), including uucp AND news; - as for other European countries, mcvax will act as the gateway between the SU net and the USA net. After all, isn't it by virtue of computers that this whole network exists? And drop you silly arguments that they will use them only for military puposes. Or are you so naive to believe that they can't make weapons/ missile control systems of their own? -- Piet Beertema CWI (Center for Math. & Comp. Science), Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet