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To: bentway who wrote (707145)	4/3/2013 2:16:52 AM
From: i-node	8 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583560

>> SDI has NEVER worked. No, SDI never worked (funding was cut off before it was finished). From your link: Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, its name was changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization(BMDO) and its emphasis was shifted from national missile defense to theater missile defense; and its scope from global to more regional coverage. It was never truly developed or deployed, though certain aspects of SDI research and technologies paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today. BMDO was renamed to the Missile Defense Agency in 2002. This article covers defense efforts under the SDIO. And the article is correct, though understated. We would not have any ballistic missile defense at all today were it not for its SDI underpinnings. In fact, there would be no missile defense at all without the work done on SDI. Reagan was a fucking genius.