Being an Alaskan I have found this thread interesting.  The discussion of 
the problems with interceptor missle accuracy made me think of the old 
Soviet answer to the problem which was to simply arm the defensive missle 
with a NUCLEAR warhead which would detonate as it got near the enemy 
missle!!  You don't need dead-on accuracy if a nuke is used!! lol  If I 
remember correctly the NATO term for the system was "Golosh."  I read the 
Russians built a string of bunkers around Moscow which could repeatedly 
launch these missles in a probably vain attempt at stopping hundreds of 
incoming western missles from destroying the city.  At least they addressed 
the issue and did the best they could with the technology available to them.
John Grigg
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