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Space based missile defense. under the clinton administration, we were ready to go. it's a myth that strategic defense initiative didn't 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 phase and given you a very high probability of interception. mark: folks need to understand the missil...

Space based missile defense. under the clinton administration, we were ready to go. it's a myth that strategic defense initiative didn't 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 phase and given you a very high probability of interception. mark: folks need to understand the missil...

Space based missile defense. under the clinton administration, we were ready to go. it's a myth that strategic defense initiative didn't 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 phase and given you a very high probability of interception. mark: folks need to understand the missil...

Remember, they're looking at missile in its boost phase, its initial minutes, as it throttles towards the atmosphere. they make a determination where it's headed in the initial minutes. they didn't see anything here because it's a false alarm. they're saying check with everyone in hawaii, check with state and local officials, it's not a pentagon matter. and they have utter confidence in their systems. >> thanks so much, hans nichols, in washington. thank you, sir. let's go to jacob soboroff who is there in hawaii, was reporting on this very system over the last two days. and since the very beg...

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 are not going to give up their nuclear weapons, period. so we are going to have to figure out how to ...