Slashdot Mirror
Missile Defense Test Intercepts ICBM Target, Says Pentagon (cnbc.com)
schwit1 quotes CNBC:
In the first test of its kind, the Pentagon on Monday carried out a "salvo" intercept of an unarmed missile soaring over the Pacific, using two interceptor missiles launched from underground silos in southern California.
Both interceptors zeroed in on the target -- a re-entry vehicle that had been launched 4,000 miles away atop an intercontinental-range missile, the Pentagon said. The first interceptor hit and destroyed the re-entry vehicle, which in an actual attack would contain a warhead. The second interceptor hit a secondary object, as expected, according to a statement by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency.
Both interceptors zeroed in on the target -- a re-entry vehicle that had been launched 4,000 miles away atop an intercontinental-range missile, the Pentagon said. The first interceptor hit and destroyed the re-entry vehicle, which in an actual attack would contain a warhead. The second interceptor hit a secondary object, as expected, according to a statement by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency.
North Korea is positioned like South Africa was - a pariah state with no defensive allies and open to attack from much larger powers. For exactly the same reasons both developed nuclear weapons, and we have historical evidence of SA getting rid of them for budgetary reasons once the political and international relations situation changed in a way that gave them better security without the weapons.