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I think we woefully underestimate the amount and kinds of absurdity our governments get up to for counterintelligence purposes.

This exactly.

The cold war was ended by the Strategic Defense Initiative - not because it worked but because we forced the USSR to pour resources into matching us and it bankrupted the country.

What an horrid war of attrition. The only winning move is to have deeper pockets.

It was less horrid than the alternative.

Yes it was resources used non productively. But winning a war with metal and bombs and radiation---priceless.

I think it's the other way around. We were anxious to get into this kind of research because we heard the USSR was well on their way.

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