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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: jttmab who wrote (5013)7/17/2001 4:11:57 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
Well, then, you should not object to spending a fortune on BMD. :-)

Is a BMD actually unworkable? It won't stop everything, true. A leaky tanker or a suitcase can still get through. But how do you get a leaky tanker to Minot, ND? Because when we find out who sent that tanker, that's where our answer will come from. And if they don't have a working BMD, they've got a problem.

The biggest problem (besides hitting a bullet with a bullet, a mere technical detail) is decoys. Distinguishing 1 of N^3 cheap decoys from 1 of N real warheads could make the system useless.
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