[net.space] "In The Country Of The Blind, . . ."

REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (04/02/84)

From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

    There are few complex systems of any type which work either
    perfectly or not at all--virtually everything's somewhere in
    between. - Lowell Wood 
That's exactly why I think now is not the time to actually build a BMD
system, the 10% of warheads that get through the BMD to hit us will
still destroy our society and government and way of life and maybe our
ecology and species. Let the research continue, and discuss the pros
and cons of various methods in upcoming years, but wait until we've
reduced warheaddage by two orders of magnitude before we actually
install BMD.