[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You mean other than giving notification to other spacefaring nations and using balloons as target satellites so as to minimize resulting debris?

Several of the early failures of the THAAD interceptor were tied to stresses induced by maneuvers intended to minimize debris rather than any basic flaws in the system. You didn't hear that on CNN. (And I work for the competitor.)

[Dosa26]

Thanks. I figured there was more to the story than I heard and/or remembered.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

In a similar vein, but completely different:

A few years ago (5 or 6) they launched an ICBM from Vandenberg on the central California coast. I was in San Jose, Ca, which is a few hundred miles to the north, but I saw the entire exhaust column, extending up into the upper atmosphere, and it was an awesome sight. It appeared as a rainbow of color from the top to bottom of the column, due to the sun or the atmosphere or something unknown to me.

We were pointing to it and a lady walked past and asked what it was, and since I am a conservative assclown I said "It's our FREEDOM!".