Originally posted by Maverick
Guns,
He does have a point regarding fallout form the warhead even if there is no nuclear explosion. Blowing up the rocket in flight, going either direction, will be about the same as blowing up a "dirty bomb" wherever the explosion happens. Better to blow it up over their ground than towards the impact zone.
Not if it hit downtown LA or Tokyo.
This would have to be a commander on the ground's call. Yes you might have widespread contamination but ask yourself how many would die from that vrs a direct hit on a major metropolitan area like LA or Seatle. I am assuming of course that the warhead would be hit a good distance away from the target. Besides I've heard time and time again from Bush haters that a dirty bomb is just fear mongering and it wouldn't really hurt the population to badly......
Another thing is he doesn't know too much about CHem Warfare. While the dust cloud left over, if not vaporized, would linger and might find its way into a populated area chances are it would not have the concentration to be a major threat when it finally gets there. Chem warheads need to be focused and concentrated to work properly. This isnt 24 where one VX missle is going to knock out an entire city, the stuff needs a spread shot to be effective. I should know I've taught NBC training the last 5 years.
trolls like him can't have it both ways. He starts off in a thread about an exciting new technology that could save millions of lives some day and the first things out of his halitosis hole are "So the Bouche administration"....... like this is some big Bush conspiracy.
We've been working on this for over a decade trying to perfect it for one reason and that is to protect a nation. If a rogue nuke hit LA everyone would wonder WHY we havn't been putting more money and energy into these projects.
