🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <993@thumper.bellcore.com> karn@thumper.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
writes:
>> SDI outlines a proposed operating structure for an initial missile-defence
>> system; of note is that contrary to assorted alarmist claims, top control
>> would remain with humans.
>
>Considering that the human involved would have to decide whether to
>commit the United States to nuclear war, I would hope that by "human
>control" they mean the President of the United States.

What kind of imbecilic nonsense is this?  Deciding whether or not to shoot
down something that looks like a missile has nothing to do with committing the
United States to a nuclear war.  The Soviets shot down something that merely
looked like it might be a spy plane (flight KAL 007) and we didn't even come
close to any kind of conventional military conflict over the incident, much
less a nuclear war.

Kevin S. Van Horn