Doh!
I was working in the defense industry at the time, and personally flushed taxpayer money down the toilet, but only in small quantities.
Invigorated by Reagan's massive defense allocations, the military-industrial complex in that era was coming up with all sorts of ways to extend the arms race -- nuclear-tipped cruise missiles secreted inside ersatz beer trucks, massive rail systems in the Great Basin states for mobile ICBMs, anti-satellite missiles (which they wanted to test, thereby surrounding the planet in a fine layer of orbital shrapnel), and the mother of all boondoggles -- the strategic defense initiative.
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Ah, the classics never die.
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I was working in the defense industry at the time, and personally flushed taxpayer money down the toilet, but only in small quantities.
Invigorated by Reagan's massive defense allocations, the military-industrial complex in that era was coming up with all sorts of ways to extend the arms race -- nuclear-tipped cruise missiles secreted inside ersatz beer trucks, massive rail systems in the Great Basin states for mobile ICBMs, anti-satellite missiles (which they wanted to test, thereby surrounding the planet in a fine layer of orbital shrapnel), and the mother of all boondoggles -- the strategic defense initiative.
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Ah, the classics never die.
- mark 3-11-2003 10:14 pm