Reply #7: If we do have the corner, and I think that the Russians still have some good stuff,

[amandabeech]

then that means that others will want it.

Perhaps you recall a Japanese and a Norwegian company selling ultra secret information to the Russians concerning milling submarine propeller blades so as to reduce the amount of noise that they made.

Of course, our friends the Israelis have been caught selling ultra secret aerospace technology to the Chinese and the Israelis have been accused by reasonable people of giving it to the Russians.

I'm well aware of the bad stuff that the U.S. government has done over the years, but I still trust us more than Russia or China. We have much more influence over our government, than the people there have over theirs.