[AdamSelene235]

Oh really? Then why does every scientist that worked on it disagree with you? Why was SDI so difficult to achieve, then? If it's that easy then why weren't you working for them? Now, of course, at point blank range you certainly don't need 10 exp 16 watts which just makes my point. Where is all that energy going? It's dissipating enroute, dumb-a$%.

Driving an X-ray laser, much less an array of X-ray lasers with a nuke, is, well, hard.

Teller's brilliant pebbles idea was better, but one of the best interception techniques is what Moscow is rumored to have, nuke tipped interceptors.

The chemical laser needed to make SDI a reality have only recently matured.

[ableChair]

You're so invested in this hobby that you can't admit you're wrong. Okay, if it's so easy to do TODAY, then why doesn't GWB run down to radio shack and buy all the lasers he needs, throw 'em into orbit on a Delta rocket and scrap the missile to missile interceptor he's building now? Common sense would tell you that the atmosphere plays a HUGE role in dissipating laser energy. It's not hard to see or understand.