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Byron Dorgan: “If I understand your response, you are not proposing then a system that would in any way protect this country against a…”

On the recordJune 18, 1996
If I understand your response, you are not proposing then a system that would in any way protect this country against a lunatic Typhoon submarine captain who launches 200 warheads from a Typhoon submarine against this country? You are not proposing a system that protects us against that?
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the adequacy of national defense proposals during a debate.

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