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Re: Non-"Leading Brand"s here?
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Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:07:16 GMT
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Matt Marshall wrote in message ...
> They could have and if they got lucky it might have detonated over a • Missile
> Silo(1). But there is now way that had we gone to war they would have • caused
> us a whole lot of damage. There technology wasn't up to it. Not to mention
> they couldn't get there fighters over here to escort the bombers, and after
> the flight most bomber(2)wouldn't have enough fuel to maneuver. So no.
> Beside that we knew most of the alternate places for the USSR cabinet to
> hide and had targeted those. They didn't know all of them and it's really
> hard to bring down and EMP resistant airplane that's flying around.
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> Mike Stanley wrote in message ...
> > So are you the person that suggests the the USSR (rememeber that's
> > what it was during the Cold War, or the CCCP if you prefer) couldn't
> > have succeeded in launching an ICBM at us?
> >
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> Matt Marshall
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oops heres the footnotes
1)The Russians first wave was targeted at the Silos not at the prez because
he would be long gone and they knew that
2)They had to fly a really long way, except from the Siberian outposts and
those were actually targeted for California and such and those probably
would have frozen controls beside.
Matt Marshall
$%#$% Vacuum Cleaners Always get my pieces!!!
Matt's Lego Page
http://rapturesoft.hypermart.net/mlego/
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| (...) So you're not saying that they couldn't have nailed us, you're just saying that they could have only nailed missile silos. I guess you'd consider any number of nuclear explosions over missile silos and the damage that would cause to the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Non-"Leading Brand"s here?
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| Op een zekere dag, te weten Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:07:16 GMT, klom "Matt Marshall" <Matt@rapturesoft.hy...rmart.net> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Don't underestimate the Russians! They where the first to take a sattelite into space, the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| They could have and if they got lucky it might have detonated over a Missile Silo(1). But there is now way that had we gone to war they would have caused us a whole lot of damage. There technology wasn't up to it. Not to mention they couldn't get (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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