Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcvax!enea!erix!robert From: robert@erix.UUCP (Robert Virding) Newsgroups: net.politics,eunet.politics Subject: Re: Nuclear arms race Message-ID: <247@erix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 05:08:47 EST Article-I.D.: erix.247 Posted: Tue Feb 7 05:08:47 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:19:51 EST References: <1745@tekig.UUCP> <5678@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 18 > 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.