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What if you mistake on it?

There's no mistake. The US population is too ignorant of its exposure to incoming missiles today. The American public would never go along with spending the money to have an effective missile shield. Also, Washington DC lacks the political will to either inform the voters of their peril from IBM's, or vote for an ABM system anyway. My personal opinion is that a land based system is too much of a compromise to be effective. It would be more akin in actual performance to the US Border Patrol.

I favor satellites for detection and tracking and submarines for intercepting missile platforms, as well as missiles intercepting with nuclear warheads. This model takes the Continental US geography out of the defense system and nuclear warheads reduce the need for impossible accuracy. The Nike Hercules used nuclear warheads to increase its kill probability, as well as insure the destruction of the incoming warhead with nuclear heat and pressure.

Nevertheless, arguments to the contrary, America will never have another missile defense system again.

SO right you are. Most people are more in tune, to Hollywood, and what Ben Afleck or Jennifer Garner are doing, or what fashion styles are hot nowdays, to remotely understand the threat that ICBM's (even the older ones) pose.Ask an average person what MIRV means, and they will respond"wasn't he a talk-show producer"? Ask what staging means, and they will probably say, " Oh , that is when the actors do things that are not spontaneous", and so on. Most even believe that we can stop ICBM"s, saying "we got a system to intercept them". If only this was true.

Now, it seems that the country that can't feed it's people, or pay its soldiers, is trying to one-up the US, and deploy a missile with MARV warheads. (maneuverable reentry vehicles, that can evade defenses against them). Of course, in Russia, they don't have to worry about special interest groups opposing any of this, like the US does. They "just do it".

I wonder how safe the average, uneducated US citizen would feel, knowing that the main US land-based ICBM, (the Minuteman III), is nearing 40 years old now, while Russia is preparing to field one worlds more intelligent, that the Minuteman.