The Great Missile Defense Boondoggle
This excellent Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article by Theodore Postol and George Lewis explains, in detailed fashion, why missile defenses, particularly the kind bandied about by the Bush administration, are doomed to fail.
Why the United States has spent tens of billions of dollars on this boondoggle is an exercise left to the reader.
Labels: boondoggle, missile defense, Postol and Lewis, stupid government tricks