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From: robert@erix.UUCP (Robert Virding)
Newsgroups: net.politics,eunet.politics
Subject: Re: Nuclear arms race
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 05:08:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 05:08:47 1984
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> After all, isn't it by virtue of computers that this whole network exists?
> And drop your 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?

The point is that they HAVE difficulty in making modern (as modern as the
west) weapon/missile control systems of their own. Why else would they
be trying to smuggle in western computer technology?

And what has giving them some vaxen to do with the fact that they have, in
principle, a closed border? Will it open it? The issue here is not just
allowing people OUT but also allowing people IN. I can travel freely around
the whole of western europe barely having to use a passport, but if I go east
things immediately become more difficult with visas, fixed travel plans, etc.

How will giving them computers fix this?

				Robert Virding.