[Lord Nelson]

Well, there you go. I didn’t know that. Another liberal lie I just took for granted to be fact. I should know better.

[UpHereEh]

They count on that. The NMD system would be a fixed, land-based, non-nuclear missile defense system with a space-based detection system used to track the launch of enemy ballistic missiles. Here's a link to the Missile Defense Agency. CNN has a Flash Presentation on how it would work.