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Space based missile defense. under the clinton administration, we were ready to go. its a myth that strategic defense initiative didnt produce anything, it produced several systems including one called brilliant pebbles that could have been deployed during the skwloorgz what was that? >> it was basically a space-based interceptors. there were autonomous space-based interceptors. you could have put up a couple of thousand of them and intercepted during boost phase, grid course and trajectory phas...

Space based missile defense. under the clinton administration, we were ready to go. its a myth that strategic defense initiative didnt produce anything, it produced several systems including one called brilliant pebbles that could have been deployed during the skwloorgz what was that? >> it was basically a space-based interceptors. there were autonomous space-based interceptors. you could have put up a couple of thousand of them and intercepted during boost phase, grid course and trajectory phas...

Space based missile defense. under the clinton administration, we were ready to go. its a myth that strategic defense initiative didnt produce anything, it produced several systems including one called brilliant pebbles that could have been deployed during the skwloorgz what was that? >> it was basically a space-based interceptors. there were autonomous space-based interceptors. you could have put up a couple of thousand of them and intercepted during boost phase, grid course and trajectory phas...

Remember, theyre looking at missile in its boost phase, its initial minutes, as it throttles towards the atmosphere. they make a determination where its headed in the initial minutes. they didnt see anything here because its a false alarm. theyre saying check with everyone in hawaii, check with state and local officials, its not a pentagon matter. and they have utter confidence in their systems. >> thanks so much, hans nichols, in washington. thank you, sir. lets go to jacob soboroff who is ther...

Flaws. by the way, never mind in hawaii. north korean icbm threat within a couple years will be real to the entire country. what do we do? and taking cover from a thermo nuclear blast is the least effective thing you can do, as hans nichols gave a wonderful summary of this, you have to get boost phase ballistic missile defense, and we have to enhance the current system we have on strategic ballistic missile defense based primarily in alaska. we have to get serious about this. the north koreans a...

Do about it? we had an excellent layout that best place to get the missile launch is during the boost phase. missile moving very slowly. very easy to engage with lasers if they are alerted. you only have a few minutes to do it. so mostly we have focused in the department of defense on terminal phase. so as coming in as they are coming in alaska, missile defense system, will then launch and try to hit a bullet with a bullet. we can do it. frequently it doesnt work. but thats where we are right no...

Is serious about the preemptive attack against north korea. we are not living our lives under north korea threat from a crazy man in north korea and if there is a war to stop this threat it will be in chinas backyard not americas backyard. hi needs to deliver the message to the chinese without any equivocation and i think he has. >> martha: senator graham, good to talk to you tonight. thank you very much, sir. what are the military options? here now general jack keene, fox news military analyst....

Of the ways to take care of it is to blow it up on the tarmac or blow it up as it leaves the tarmac. i understand our guest in first hour says there is technology out there called boost phase intercepts that would allow -- we have technology that would deploy a drone-like craft that would blow this rocket out of the sky before it reached -- left our atmosphere before it got to a high speed. and i think that would be the message. no one gets killed and we say that is enough. steve: the problem is...

In north korea have the capability to hit the homeland. were not going to live this way. to our friends in china, were not going to live this way. you need to help us. if you dont help us, well take care of it. us taking care of it means the wars in your backyard, not ours. >> taking hundreds of thousands of lives on the korean peninsula and possibly beyond. joining us, mark hertling and retired air force colonel rick francona. how big a step forward, first of all, is this for north korea, the f...

The emphasis on the three countries in the region and making sure that you have some sort of military show of force that lets the north koreans know that there are great capabilities that can be brought to bear on them. this time it was the south koreans. they started firing some precision-guided missiles and artillery while the missile was still aloft. thats faster than weve seen before. one of the debates back here in washington is how much money youre actually going to spend on ballistic miss...