[Zhang Fei]

I'm sure you're right, Zhang Fei, unless, of course, communist China puts anti-missile weapons in space.

If that were a panacea, we'd already have done it. NASA put men on the moon almost 50 years ago. I think ABM researchers have pretty much looked at every possibility, ever since the old days of thinking about launching nukes to hit incoming nukes.

[Standing Wolf]

I think ABM researchers have pretty much looked at every possibility, ever since the old days of thinking about launching nukes to hit incoming nukes.

Oh. I didn't think of that.

One of the compensations of getting old is you get used to discovering your ignorants are showing. It becomes somewhat less shocking with practice.