Aucbvax.1406 fa.arms-d utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!CAULKINS@USC-ECL Sun May 24 20:31:37 1981 zapsats Bill Vaughan (msg of 24 May 18:19 cdt) strongly advocates x-ray zapsats as an ultimate ICBM defense. He says they "are cheap to build and launch (low mass)..". How cheap ? How low is the mass ? It is difficult to present any reasonable argument without further details. Rejection of information just because it appears in a particular publication does not project an aura of objectivity. Richard Garwin is not without reputation as a strategic weapon analyst, and Aviation Week is not completely without bias. Let us have more facts and fewer flames. Dave C ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.