I think you're wrong on this one. As you remember, most of the test
interceptions were NEAR HITS (sometimes erroneously called near misses).
The idea was to hit a bullet with a bullet, so to speak, with actual
kinetic physical contact. This mode of antimissile defense was seriously
deficient as we all know because there were only a few direct hits.
Of course, the project would have been written off as a failure had those
tests not been a smokescreen. You see, the reliability of this system is
phenonenal given the use of NUCLEAR WARHEADS! You will remember back in
the '50s, a one kiloton warhead was shot from an 8 inch cannon, so such a
nuclear warhead will easily fit in these so-called kinetic kill interceptor
vehicles. Equipped with small nuke, the kill reliability is close to 100%
because even a miss of a quarter mile will take out an enemy warhead just
from the radiation flux. Most if not all the tests would have brought the
nuclear warhead within the kill radius, so the project was a resounding
success and should be brought online.
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