Spitfighter
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This is a laughable argument. The US under Raygun began the Strategic Defense Initiative, aka 'Star Wars', only in the R/D stage, which is the most time and money consuming part of any project, and the Soviets nearly had a heart attack. The scientific divide was split quite even inside the Soviet scientific circle, not about if the US has the technological capability to do it, but whether or not the US is willing to devote the necessary finance and technological resources to achieve the program within their lifetime. The technological hurdles were great but no one was willing to put his diploma on the line by using the word 'impossible'. The examinations of the details did of course would swayed some scientists to the 'nyet' camp, but only if there was a time constraint. But once those time constraints were removed, all agreed that between the US and the USSR, it would be the US who would rendered all Soviet nuclear ballistic missiles financially worthless. When Gorby could not convinced Raygun to stop the program, the Soviet Union collapsed and SDI, even as an R/D project, contributed to that collapse.
Please...Stop believing in 'Chinese physics'.
In your professional opinion, how much of a threat do these missiles pose?