The New California Republic wrote:Oil exporting People wrote:
And, again, that's not true. NIKE missiles carrying nuclear warheads are sufficient to defeat MIRV-tipped ICBMs and, given current arsenal sizes, more than a valid option.
ABM systems with nuclear warheads are not a valid counter to MIRVs or decoys, inability to deal with them is one of the reasons why A-35 was retired, and it is debatable whether newer systems like Gorgon and the much older NIKE can deal with them.
ABM systems are more than sufficient to defeat MIRVs, that's part of the basis of AEGIS which we've had since the 80s. The real reason NIKE got retired is that McNamara was a fuck and because of 'Nam. The newer missiles we're deploying can be easily used to foster a new generation of ABM defenses, indeed, we've partially already got one in place in America and attempted to build one in Europe.