Rounding up 1 significant figure would reduce their combat effectiveness measurably.
The threat to LA is the best available because I don't think they have a missle delivery vehicle capable of reaching any East Coast cities.
The Chinese had the shenzhou 2 capsule in orbit for 7 months in 2001... more recently shenzhou 3 went up with and safely returned nine eggs after 108 orbits... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1948000/1948317.stm One would suspect that that they're far more interested in launching 12-14 ton commercial payloads with the long-march 2ea, then they are in blowing up the US.
We're off-topic, but I'd say that cyberterrorismis far less expensive to create than invasion or nuclear weapons.
Deepak Jain AiNET
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of blitz Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:33 PM To: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu Subject: RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
I put nothing past them, of course theyre not alone, as we all must assume by now. Theyve threatened to nuke LA if we interfere with their plans to take Tiawan by force, and smile and say, kill 300 million of us, do us a favor. Kinda hard to deal with an enemy like that.
At 18:01 4/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
Is it really hard to believe that the Chinese government would actively fund cyberterrorism?
Deepak Jain AiNET
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