Hmm, let's see. Nukes => cold war => arpanet => internet Yup, looks ok. On 2/12/07, Olsen, Jason <jolsen@devry.com> wrote:
Of course, but the point was the goal of that targetting. The US public by and large believed, and seems to still believe [snip] If anniliation is the goal than it's of no importance, just bomb the densest population centers.
To borrow from snarky comments past:
Unless Vendor C has introduced a "no nuclear-apocalpyse" command that I need to enable in IOS, it seems that this thread has wandered far from the flock and subsequently lost most any relevance to the listserv and/or topic that spawned it. Cold War strategy is fascinating and all (I do mean that in a non-snarky way) but does it really belong on NANOG after it has seemingly dropped any pretense of being an analogy for anything list-relevant?
-Feren Sr Network Engineer DeVry University