prentice%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice) (04/22/91)
From: prentice%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice) [All replies should go to Mr. Prentice; cc military-request@amd.com if you like. Don't followup to the list. --CDR] Following the brief discussion recently in this newsgroup of the pros and cons of whether treaty related matters are appropiate in sci.military, I took the moderators suggestion and scanned soc.politics.arms-d. We show only 8 postings having ever been made to that newsgroup (at least that is all we ever got at UNM) and one of those was mine. I posted a message yesterday to that group asking if anyone was out there, so far I might as well have beamed my message to the stars. So, first a question. I would appreciate hearing from people who are interested in discussing arms control and how it affects military technology but who cannot access soc.politics.arms-d (this I suspect is the case with a large number of readers of this newsgroup since few federal organizations allow these newsgroups to be accessed). If there is sufficient interest, perhaps it would warrant either a new sci. type newsgroup along these lines or an expansion of the charter of this one. Second, if anyone can access soc.politics.arms-d, I would like to hear from you just to know someone is alive out there. Considering the few billion a year being spent by the U.S. to develop arms whose designs are directly affected by arms treaties (minor technologies like nuclear weapons), I think this would be a valuable area to see some discussion in, particularly since arms control efforts for both nuclear and conventional weapons are accelerating. My company does a considerable amount of work in both treaty verification and in performing technical services for treaty writers. Our end is strictly military technology related, so I have a professional interest in discussing these topics with others. If you are out there, let me know. [The internet mailing list gatewayed to soc.politics.arms-d is (or was) ARMS-D; the last article on it was 4/1. The charter of sci.military won't be expanded to cover that area while I'm moderating it but by all means feel free to mail opinions to Mr. Prentice, and cc military-request@amd.com (but NOT the list) with your responses if you like. --CDR] -- John K. Prentice john@unmfys.unm.edu (Internet) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA Computational Physics Group, Amparo Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, USA