CNN Weekend Early Start March 16, 2013 11:04:00
>> two parts, the early warning system, you have to be able to detect it and you detect it if there's a heat signature of some sort, if a rocket is going off we detect it and we have ground based and sea based early morning systems based in the the pacific ocean and in alaska and california. if you look at the geometry of what we are talking about that covers the united states and its territories and allowed to see if there is going to be an event and then do something about it, and that's the second part. we have a mid course intercepter, and that needs development. there has been tests and w...
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