KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch") (03/02/86)
From: vger!al@ucbvax.berkeley.edu ( Informatix)
'Defense' research is a driving force in the US/USSR arms race. This
race has two credible outcomes - mutual nuclear disaster and mutual
economic exhaustion (while Japan laughs all the way to the bank). ...
Japan is able to do this by being under our defense umbrella, while
paying none of the costs. Perhaps we should send them a bill.
...Keith