Thursday, February 02, 2012

Are Gingrich's space ideas really "zany?"

"If the next President does decide to build a space-based missile-defense system, he will, as usual, be faced with a huge political uproar from people who, in a disconnect of logic, somehow believe that if the US is undefended, no-one will then wish to attack it. He will also be faced by the question of how to deploy a large number of orbital interceptors at a reasonable cost. But if the US is to stay defended, it is necessary to deploy them quickly -- at the very most within four years."
Read more here:  http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2808/newt-gingrich-space-policy

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