FAS

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), May 01, 2001

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Can you say Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?

-- (John_Gotti_@_snotty.Illuminati), May 01, 2001.

Thank you Lars for this fascinating link. I will consult it whenever plagued by insomnia.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), May 02, 2001.

As a service for those who don't click links they know nothing about:

"The Federation of American Scientists conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy. FAS is a privately-funded non-profit policy organization whose Board of Sponsors includes 51 of America's Nobel laureates in the sciences.

FAS was founded as the Federation of Atomic Scientists in 1945 by members of the Manhattan Project who produced the first atomic bomb, to address the implications and dangers of the nuclear age. FAS is the oldest organization dedicated to ending the worldwide arms race, achieving complete nuclear disarmament, and avoiding the use of nuclear weapons, and much of its work has been in nuclear arms control and disarmament."

So, the site has info on, among other things, the anti-missile defense system our(?) President Bush is trying to get funded.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), May 02, 2001.

Doing a search for "anti-missile" on the FAS home-page gives 719 hits.

Anti-missile

The anti-missile debate has been around forever. Possibly you remember the Jules Pfeiffer cartoon from the early 70s (?) in which the 1st frame showed a missile; the second frame showed an anti-missile attacking the first missile; the 3rd frame showed the first missile releasing an anti-anti-missile; the 4th frame showed.......you get the idea.

Not a valid argument against the anti-missile but a good cartoon. All's fair in love and culture-war.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), May 03, 2001.