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In article <4rbk0h$1bm@clarknet.clark.net> prb@clark.net (Pat) writes:

> and even if terrorists get their hands on an ICBM,
> what country is going to allow it to be launched from
> their territory, knowing US Surveillance satellites will
> spot the launch, range teh site and direct a punishing
> counter-blow?

> I can state with some certainty the US JCS will not differentiate
> between the Red March Liberation front of Allah and the Libyan
> state if that missile comes out of the Qatar depression.

Given that it could be launched from the United States and we couldn't
do anything about it, why bomb anyone else for the missile being launched
from their soil?

I mean, it's possible that an independent engineering firm somewhere
in the third world could come up with a "Big Dumb Booster"
pressure-fed type ICBM or IRBM and launch it without the knowledge of
that country's government.

If it happened _here_, the country with allegedly the best military on
Earth, we couldn't shoot it down. If it happened in Russia, it's possible
that all of their radars point in the wrong direction to shoot it down.


> Don't even bring up issues like Sea-launch or AIr-launch,
> YOu'll amuse me too much.

It worked for Starstruck, and they were on a shoestring budget.

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