"DrPostman" quoted an earlier post:

On 28 Sep 2003 13:00:37 GMT, (Newssearcher1)
wrote:

(Thanks for posting this reminder. I've included a couple of other
groups that might appreciate this)

And thank you for quoting it. The original post is not on
Google, so I don't see it. Also, I never heard about this
incident before. I heard the first reports of the KAL 007
being shot down soon after it happened, and followed the news
closely for the next few weeks because I thought it would be
nice to know the details of how World War III started.

I had been sensitized by seeing Reagan's talk in which he
introduced the "nuclear shield" idea which became SDI. For
about ten minutes I thought it was pretty cool. Then I
realized he was just talking about shooting down rockets, in
a system that would have to react within about five minutes of
the first warning in order to do any "good". Meaning that it
was pretty much designed to start a nuclear war automatically
before anyone had time to even ask, "what's going on here?"

The story you quoted is actually such a perfect example of
what I was concerned about that I could have written it as
fiction.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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