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Message no. 1
From: "Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Aside.
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 13:40:30 -0500
Rat:
]Yes, you are correct about the SR-71 being nuke capable. It was designed to
]carry a "one megaton device." Why else would it have
"Strike/Stragegic" in
]it's designation? :-)

Because President of US, giving a speech, changed it from 'RS' to 'SR.'
Mistake, but they kept it.


--Flare <NULLSIG COURTESY OF DOOM>

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Message no. 2
From: Richard Pieri <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Aside.
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 14:48:34 EDT
>>>>> "Dark" == Dark Thought Publications
<JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU> writes:

]Yes, you are correct about the SR-71 being nuke capable. It was designed to
]carry a "one megaton device." Why else would it have
"Strike/Stragegic" in
]it's designation? :-)

Dark> Because President of US, giving a speech, changed it from 'RS' to
Dark> 'SR.' Mistake, but they kept it.

Ummm... yeah, but you've got the reasons wrong. The original designation
was "RS-71" for "Reconaisance/Strike", but LBJ transposed the letters.
Rather than saying that the President was wrong, they changed the
designation to "Strategic Reconaisance." In either case, both it and the
YF-12 could carry that tac-nuke.

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