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From: amdcad!amdcad.AMD.COM!cdr@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Carl Rigney)
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Subject: Re: ABM
Keywords: Safeguard
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Date: 6 May 89 03:37:06 GMT
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From: amdcad!amdcad.AMD.COM!cdr@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Carl Rigney)

The US did have an ABM missile system - Safeguard - but I don't believe
it ever went operational.  Just as it was ready it was decided to
dismantle it.  Somewhere I have an old press clipping that shows the
massive pyramidal hardened control bunker.  A lot of the equipment that
was put inside is still there, because it would cost too much to open
the walls to bring it out.  It was built to take near hits from nukes,
since obviously your ABM control center is a prime first strike target.

Note that the 1 ABM system allowed to each side was required to defend
a missile field.  The Moscow ABMs are there to defend the missile fields
outside Moscow; it's just "coincidence" that they're also defending the
capital & C&C center.

	--Carl Rigney
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