Re: Missile Shield

[Joshua Bell]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Suppose our missile
>shield is very, very, good -- 95% effective, so only 1 in 20 missiles gets
>through. What happens when the Chinese build 1,000 more missiles to counter
>our shield? Unless we are willing to take 50 missile hits, I think our
>missile shield becomes irrelevant.

Or 50 warheads and 950 decoys; the decoys are much cheaper since they can 
launch on the same booster and don't have all that complicated nu-ku-lar 
stuff inside.

Joshua

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