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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (30675)	10/2/2001 12:46:23 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

<The most optimistic number is 100%> Not by anyone charged with specifying or designing the system. If fact, nobody who knows anything about it is recommending a system that tries to take out reentry vehicles. No system that is being designed or developed now is the be all and end all of all possible missile defenses. The people working on weapons now don't have any greater idea of what will be possible 50 years from now then people in WWI knew what weapons would be available at the time of the Vietnam War. <If you are talking about putting biological agents on a nuclear weapon then the nuclear explosion will kill the biologicals. > You don't know about MIRV's? Even if you destroy the payload that is nuclear, the residuals will get you. I do know about MIRVs. My comments about a biological single warhead missile would also apply to the biological MIRV. The biological warhead can have a conventional explosion to spread the biological agent. If you destroy the warhead the biological payload may be rendered ineffective. If you destroy the missile in boost phase the biological payload will either be rendered ineffective or will infect someone besides the intended target, possibly including the country that launched it. In any case a country that is able to launch a large amount of nukes would probably not want to launch biologicals. Contagious biologicals can spread to the attacking country. Also biologicals do not act quickly enough to prevent a massive nuclear retaliation. Tim