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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Nuclear arms race - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 22:30:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 22:30:23 1984
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uiucdcs!renner    Feb  7 20:13:00 1984

   /***** uiucdcs:net.politics / mcvax!piet /  4:12 am  Feb  7, 1984 */
>  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.

Effects of this proposed plan:

- The 50 computers are distributed to projects that suit the Soviet
  leadership.  Most of these will be military in nature.  Perhaps two or
  three will go to "genuine" research projects.

- The autodialers and modems are stored in a warehouse somewhere.  Or perhaps 
  they will be used to provide computer access for trusted leaders.  (Their
  transmissions will be monitored anyway.)  Most certainly they will not be
  used to connect a large, decentralized computer network.  There is NO
  chance that there will be an uncensored connection to the free-world nets.

>  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?

Perhaps they can.  But in fact US technology figures prominently in what they
have produced.  It was US technology that made the inertial guidance systems
for their new MIRVed ICBMs possible.  So who's being naive?

Scott Renner
{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner