Airborn Laser successfully fires high-energy laser

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

if it knocks out even one nuke in its program lifetime, or scares a country into not launching at all, the program as paid for itself 1000x over.

Well, thats true, although the cynic in me thinks it may be just as effective in encouraging other countries to have more, or more advanced nuclear delivery
systems. Such is the nature of arms races since the first time proto-man chucked a
rock at the caveman sleeping with his wife. Inventing the shield may have made
chucking rocks much less successful, but it was never going to stop conflict for long;
as there was still something to fight about.


I'm not saying it's a bad thing or a good thing, just another step in the endless
arms race.
You are certainly ****ed if you have no rocks and no shield, but it takes more
having such things to avoid conflict altogether.