The Marshall Institute advocates that the United States should deploy space-based missile interceptors in the near future. At best such weapons would not be cost effective, at worst they would be useless.
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Spergel, D., Field, G. What price space-based interceptors?. Nature 333, 813–815 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/333813a0
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