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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] LOO-KNEE! SDI, while nice on paper, wouldn't have worked. What finally defeated the Soviets was that our big, bloated Federal government finally outspent them. "hostilities the Klingons can no longer afford," and such. The USSR had/s enough warheads to utterly destroy, or at the very least terminally poison, all life in the US six times over. So shooting down 5 out of 6 missiles (a better rate than SDI even proposed) would still have left us with everybody dead anyway. Our retaliatory exchange, of course, would have done the same to them, regardless of SDI. This would still have likely been enough to kill everybody everywhere. SDI might, now, be effective against organized missile attacks from agressor nations with limited arsenals... but who does that when it's easier just to drive a truck up to Central Park and set one off in a briefcase? Oh, and nuclear winter could be a factor even in an exchange of only a dozen warheads. Remember how far the radioactive dust spread after Chernobyl? That was ONE explosion, and it didn't even have a high stratospheric mushroom cloud. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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