Murphy's Law: May 28, 2000

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Theodore Postol, an MIT professor and frequent critic of the National Missile Defense system, has sent a letter claiming that the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization is covering up failures by its interceptors to distinguish between real targets and decoy balloons. He has demanded that the program be stopped while an investigation is conducted. The Pentagon says that Postol's charges are based on flight data from a previous
interceptor design that is no longer in use.--Stephen V Cole


 

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