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National Misslie Defense System

In the first of a four part series, NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the debate in Congress over whether the proposed national missile defense system is realistic. The 60-billion-dollar system is designed to intercept a missile aimed at the United States, but as a test failure over the weekend showed, it's far from reliable.

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