[ffusco]

How about a missile defense system based on the e-bomb, maybe a bunch of cheap expendable satellites like mines?

[Monty22]

I dunno.. Many of those old tests were to see feasibility of actual nuclear blasts against incoming warheads at high altitude.

The Soviets stocked up Moscow with many of them. I believe the USA had a site over Minot AFB or some other place with nuclear tipped ABM's as well.

I think a warhead would be fairly easy to shield from an e-bomb.