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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Star Wars -> Nuclear war
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 21:35:18 EST
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> What I was saying is that shooting down cruise missiles is no big deal,
> all you need to do is beef up the air defense system with SAM's (we
> have none now) and the interceptor wings (we have about 300 planes in
> noth america, mostly ancient).  We used to have a large system,
> but ICBM's came along....  In short, its not a hard problem...
> 
Not a hard problem in theory, in practice knocking down several thousand (or
tens of thousands) of cruise missles within a few hours or days is quite 
another matter indeed.  Particularly when every one that gets through destroys
another city....