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Aucbvax.1422 fa.arms-d utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!REM@MIT-MC Tue May 26 18:10:55 1981 Re: zapsats I agree completely. In fact we should install zapsats that indiscriminately destroy any ICBM in any location heading from any source to any destination. That way nobody can complain that if we install them first they'll upset the arms balance. We can even test them by firing an ICBM from time to time and watching it get destroyed, and encouraging the USSR to do likewise. Unfortunately the zapsats currently invented are one-time only, destroy themselves when used. We need a reusable zapsat, one that sits in orbit shooting down ICBMs and remaining around to shoot down more later.

One problem, we have to distinguish between ICBMs and normal launches of peaceful spacecraft. Anybody have a good way to solve that problem?

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