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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (130168)	12/29/2000 12:43:46 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572207

Dear Combjelly: No, IIRC, it used Nike-Zeus, a fast boost 2 stage missile that could get to space during warhead reentry, and damage the warhead (it assumed one for each missile (designed before MIRV, buses, and decoys)) which would cause it to break apart and burn up. It had the advantage that during reentry, the target is white-hot and easily tracked using well developed sidewinder type (infrared source seeking) technology. A couple of disadvantages are that it did spread radioactive plutonium gas plumes over vast areas (due to the high altitudes at intercept) and that a premature (nuclear) detonation (EMP burst) could occur over our country. This concept was never tested to my knowledge and the equivalent Soviet system was not either but, it was deployed around Moscow (one cities defense was allowed per side in the ABM treaty (what city would you protect in the US (if you think the 2000 election caused furor, this would take it to a much higher level)?)). Pete