“STAR WARS” MISSILE DEFENCE IS BACK BUT NOT HOW IT SHOULD BE

Sourced: Asia Times

By Doug Tsuruoka

Space-based missile tracking sensors, high-energy particle beams that zap nuclear warheads and President Donald Trump’s call for a new “Space Force” branch of the US military.

For those who remember President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of almost four decades ago, it sounds like déjà vu all over again. Reagan pitched building an ambitious anti-missile system in 1983 dubbed “Star Wars.”

The R&D effort, which included space-based lasers, was sidetracked by funding shortfalls and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But it appears to have gained a new lease on life.

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