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   johnny1a.again@gmail.com to Mr Anderson   
   Re: Interstellar Mutual Assured Destruct   
   03 Nov 17 20:37:24   
   
   On Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 6:38:20 PM UTC-5, Mr Anderson wrote:   
   > Ok, so I had a brake from science fiction related topics, but today a   
   thouhgt came to me: If we have a two planets, in two solar systems, a few   
   lightyears apart from each other, and they have specialized relativistic speed   
   spacecrafts serving as    
   interstellar RKVs, and they are precise enough to hit the enemy planet in   
   enemy's system, could this mean a MAD but on truly space scale?   
      
   You don't need the super-super-superweapons.   
      
   Depending on your tech assumptions, two inhabited planets can knock each other   
   out with nothing more sophisticated than plain old nuclear bombs, in large   
   numbers.  The issue is your delivery system, which in turn depends, as I said,   
   on your tech    
   assumptions for the setting.   
      
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