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Re: shuttle disaster



On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:01:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > I'm not entirely convinced of this, to be honest with you.  If we were
> > talking the RA and RCA in northern Europe, you're right.  But even
> > then, the RCA and RA was leading us into battle (not that this is a
> > bad thing, the RA is more local and probaly had a slightly better idea
> > of the local geography than the American and RCA soldiers did).
> 
> By RA, you mean RAF?

Royal Army, not Air Force.  (Side note, Royal Canadian Air Farce is
damn funny.)

> > > All during the CW, the French steered a much more independant military
> > > course, having their own, non-integrated nuclear policy, and not
> > > being fully integrated into NATO.
> > 
> > Hence bombing whales with nukes in the mid-Atlantic clear into the 1990s.
> 
> WTF??

Thier nuclear testing program by detonating nuclear devices underwater
was killing whales with the concussions.

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