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Originally posted by Adder
Or it could be that even after being hugely stripped back from the original pipe dream, it still doesn't work.
I think we should spend reasonable amounts researching it, but I think we would be nuts to think that this is a meaningful piece of the defense strategy.
And, moreover, we should realize that it is just yet another escaltion, and its usefulness is likely to be short-lived (see, e.g., China work on anti-satellite weapons).
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I don't think war with China is ever going to happen. We are just to intertwined economically. If a country has hundreds of missiles to throw at us, and especially if they develop MIRV technology, they will be able to get through our defenses. The system is for a country that just has a couple of missiles. But that list of nations grows all the time, and the possiblity of a lunatic getting a hold of a long range balistic missile or two grows all the time.
