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Aucbvax.1476 fa.arms-d utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!REM@MIT-MC Mon Jun 1 15:55:09 1981

Anybody have any rebuttal to this claim of mine: Before MIRV, first-strike didn't make sense. Each silo had one missile with one warhead, and if you use one of yours to shoot down one of theirs you haven't gained anything except for killing a few personnel and making some local fallout. But with MIRV, you can shoot several of their silos with just one of yours, if you shoot first, making first-strike an advantage if your warheads are accurate enough to hit the enemy silos with high probability.

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