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Originally posted by Spanky
Cite please. And a cite by a real expert in the field. Not some meandering diatribe from a political scientist in Mother Jones. And are you saying that the Patriot missile doesn't work?
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You'll have a harder time finding an account that the thing does work, so you go first. For an in-depth account of the technological hurdles that ICBM defense faces, read
Into The Wild Blue Yonder by Frances FitzGerald (I believe). An excellent book, and an interesting account of the politics within the Reagan White House. For something more web-accessible, look at
this or
this or
this.
The Patriot system doesn't work particularly well, and the hurdles associated with SDI are much greater.
