[lbo-talk] New weapon label: Made in Japan

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Fri Jul 2 20:53:17 PDT 2004


There was a lot of talk about this after the first Gulf War. I have not heard anything afterwards.

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 04:41:11AM +0500, uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
> The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
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> January/February 1990
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> Vol. 46, No. 1
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> New weapon label: Made in Japan
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> Steven K. Vogel
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> "Japanese companies have now caught up with U.S. producers in most of the
> basic technologies necessary for defense production. A 1989 Pentagon report
> judges that Japan leads the United States in 6 of 22 technologies critical
> to national security and the long-term superiority of U.S. weapons systems:
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> microelectronic circuits, gallium arsenide semiconductors, machine
> intelligence and robotics, integrated optics, superconductivity, and
> biotechnology materials.3 Furthermore, Japanese producers have a significant
> advantage in product reliability and production technology."
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> http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1990/jf90/jf90vogel.html
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