Hi Rascal; Re: " Russia has designed a "revolutionary" weapon that would make the prospective U.S. missile defense useless, Russian news agencies reported, quoting a senior Defense Ministry official."
This isn't news, nor is it significant, as far as the reasoning goes for putting together a US missile defense. The purpose of the modern version of "Star Wars" isn't to protect us from China or Russia. There were hopes for that, but they were mostly entertained by people who were not being reasonable in their analysis of the situation, but instead were being hopeful. Instead, the purpose of missile defense is to protect us from the small nations that are just barely able to get something into space, and don't have the money and brains to put together a more sophisticated system. I've commented on this before. For example:
Bilow, December 20, 2001
I think we need it as a defense against little countries, not the big ones that can afford to experiment with complicated decoys and lots of rockets. #reply-16813764
Bilow, December 31, 2001
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China is easily technologically capable of building missiles that would get around the simple NMD systems the US is talking about right now.
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