Two reasons. MIRVs rendered them mostly obsolete since the system could be overwhelmed. Also the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty was signed which limited the number of ABMs to a hundred for both the US and Soviets.
Sounds like we should get them back up and running. Obviously not the same missiles, but there's no reason not to start with the same kind of logic of putting missile defense sites up across the country.
Bro, what happened to the old Nike sites? We had over 2,000 of them scattered across the US.
Two reasons. MIRVs rendered them mostly obsolete since the system could be overwhelmed. Also the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty was signed which limited the number of ABMs to a hundred for both the US and Soviets.
Sounds like we should get them back up and running. Obviously not the same missiles, but there's no reason not to start with the same kind of logic of putting missile defense sites up across the country.