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20 January 2001

AS GEORGE “Dubya” Bush settles into the White House this weekend he faces
some tricky scientific and technological questions. To help him on his way,
Feedback is happy to pass on some advice sent to us earlier this month,
concerning the National Missile Defense system, also known as “Son of Star
Wars”. Dubya is well known to be a fan of the NMD. But does he understand quite
how difficult it is to build an anti-missile missile that works?

“Let’s put the technical problem in terms that Dubya may understand,” begins
our advice, which comes from a body calling itself…

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