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by ben_w 762 days ago
IIRC, one of the problems with SDI was that at the time the only way to make lasers powerful enough to destroy an ICBM was to pump the lasing medium with a nuke, making them one-shot devices.

Sensing may still be a problem today, especially as stealth is also improving, but detection in general is much easier than it was in the Regan era.