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Our missile defense program

By pharrell

Of course the American military shot down a disabled spy satellite to test--and demonstrate--our missile defense program; as Gail Collins points out in her column today, the official safety explanation simply isn't compelling on its own. And seen for what it was, the test was a spectacular success: we not only hit the satellite, we appear to have punctured its fuel tank, a nice, small, hard target probably not much bigger than the warhead we'd need to hit on an incoming missile. It'll be interesting to see if this quiets the missile defense critics who argue that the program isn't technologically feasible.

Full post as published by Harrell Blog on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).