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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (130103)12/26/2000 10:45:17 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (2) of 1571802
 
Re: send in a whole lot of decoys

If there were a credible defense, one missile would be sent 5 minutes ahead of the rest, detonated in the stratosphere, and the resulting EMP (electromagnetic pulse) would take out the sensing equipment needed to guide the interceptors or plasma beams, or whatever, to their targets.

Inertial guidance is good enough for an ICBM, but the interceptors must be perfectly on target, and need sensitive detectors to track their targets - and those detectors are far too vulnerable to a device being detonated in the stratosphere to be of any practical use.

Besides, the whole thing's irrelevant since far and away the most credible threat is delivery via suitcase, not ICBM.

Dan
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