EVEN FROM THE GRAVE, LAROUCHE'S SDI CAN END ALL WAR. "Interim SDI" deployment is already happening. My memo from 6 years ago, was totally on the mark. (See below). Add to that the US military's new 300 kilowatt laser, for defending ground bases, China's new 1-megawatt space nuclear reactor and megawatt laser, and it is clear where things are going. When President Reagan adopted LaRouche's SDI proposal in 1983, the current technologies did not exist, but the fear of them brought down the then-Soviet empire. Today, SDI can fulfil LaRouche's original intent, which was to make nuclear war IMPOSSIBLE. Once all nuclear powers have such defenses, all planes, ICBM's and hypersonic missiles are "rendered obsolete" as Reagan said in his Speech of March 1983. At that point, the oligarchy cannot play nations off against each other in its attempt to control them all.

(Although answering this memo would be difficult, since such stuff is all classified, and no one is going to tell how advanced they are, we can surmise the following is well within the range of possibility:)

It is being reported that the US military is looking into the possibility of a system of drones capable of shooting down ballistic missiles from above. The article below claims a potential 20km range. All of these systems would have to use adaptive optics to prevent a laser from diffusing over a short distance from atmospheric disturbance.

I would point out that a system of drones ABOVE the troposphere would have the ability to hit ICBMS coming in from higher up, without the distortion of the lower atmosphere, since the stratosphere is much thinner. Even if not destroying an ICBM, it could cause it to not hit its target. If a bomb detonates too high, or too low, or too off-target, its destructiveness is dramatically reduced.

There have also been recent demonstrations of a working land-laser in China, capable of shooting down drones from about 2 miles away, with rumors of a more powerful and longer-range version. Such reports, along with other systems being developed by Russia, suggest that we are within range of an INTERIM SDI system, capable of defending cities from ICBMS. Such a system could not offer complete defense of a territory, but could defend certain high-priority centers, like cities, and so on. What is needed is:

Such earthbound systems have the advantage over satellites of being CLOSER to their targets, so that less power and less accuracy in aiming the lasers is possible than if they were in low earth orbit. I have suspected for some time that both Russia and China have been attempting to build such a system. Racing ahead to develop such interim systems could be one way to outflank the war party.