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To: combjelly who wrote (707170)	4/3/2013 11:45:20 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583362

>> The systems that have been developed often fail to shoot down targets even when the test environment is greatly simplified. Yes, that's how complex systems are developed. You should know that. You take a shot at it and when you fail you make changes and take another shot. If you look at the various missile defense programs the US has, either deployable or in development, somewhere in its root system you'll find SDI. SDI was, in effect, basic research on the subject of missile defense (and it is interesting this seems to be the ONE area of government funded basic research you seem opposed to!) There is, quite literally, no way to overstate the role this research has played in getting us to where we are now, which is light years ahead of where we were 30 years ago. To me, that is a successful program when you're talking about this subject. >> So we don't really know what would happen with real threats. Uh, yeah. There haven't been any "real threats". I'd say that is "working". The truth is that Reagan's intense attitude toward nuclear abolition -- of which SDI was a key part -- is the most important step ever taken toward eliminating the threats. He understood that you couldn't reduce nuclear threats through cow-towing, and that it was necessary to leverage our strength to do it. I really think you're trying hard to make an argument where no thinking person could do so.