re: #103 Targetpractice

A program with a 50% success rate at a time when we should be downsizing our military, getting off a war footing and accepting a much smaller role in world affairs. Preventing ICBM attacks by avoiding the sort of antagonism that would lead to launches.

In 1908, the Army spent a relative fortune for delivery of an aircraft with a 0% success rate. The first plane delivered crashed and killed the first pilot trained. They worked the kinks out. ABM is one of the more benign weapon systems out there—useful for nothing but destroying incoming nukes without killing anyone.