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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] Isn't it pretty clear that STAR WARS Missile Defense doesn't work? Last summer, the Star Wars system failed again -- $100 million was spent so that one missile could try and shoot down another. The rocket carrying the intercept missile didn't deploy, and ::flush:: went the toilet. Fifty Nobel Prize winners (21 of the Nobel Prize in Physics) have written to this nations' leaders, asking them to abandon national missile defense. They say it won't work. If we do try this, both Russia and China will embark on an arms race to overwhelm our missile defense. Big issue: countermeasures. How our enemies could defeat Star Wars. Guess what? It can be done by decoys! Place a warhead inside a Mylar balloon and launch a hundred of decoy balloons. So far, the system can't discriminate against live and decoy targets. What is wrong with deterrence? Our advesaries have had nuclear weaponry for 50 years, and they've never attacked. We've never had "Star Wars." Why haven't they attacked? They've been afraid of the response -- massive retaliation, suicide for small countries, Mutual Assured Destruction for a superpower. This system has kept the peace for two centuries, let's not try and go with something that wouldn't work. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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