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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] To be honest, the best missile defense would be fragging the other guy's launchers BEFORE they have a chance to launch. Now, since a ICBM strike would give an enemy FAR too much time to see it coming, that wouldn't work. BUT, a SPACE-based first strike capability... would cut that time by over half. There'd be no plume to alert the enemy of your launch. There'd be less than half the cruise time, less ballistic time, no boost phase, less time to intercept... and with the proper materials, no need for nuclear payloads. Drop a boxcar-sized rock on, Tehran, for example, and you'd be left with a mile-wide crater and a far-reaching circle of devastation. However, our need for defense is now much greater against smuggled 'pocket nukes' than it is against ballistic missiles. And the only really efective way to defend against that is to eliminate all the sorts of groups that might pose such a threat. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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