We did not receive that signal. I would say we didn't get the data we had hoped to have. If the system doesn't work, it's just not big enough. The question is not whether it works, but whether we need it. Maybe the test worked just fine but they want the world to believe we can't do it.
Disinformation goes a long way.
The U.S. defense industry is an enormously influential group of corporations that can make or break the careers of countless politicians and Pentagon brass. Finding new and creative ways to appease them has been a blood sport in Washington even before Eisenhower warned us of the military-industrial complex. The shameful parroting in major newspapers of ludicrous statements by various Pentagon spokesmen, Congressmen, and Clinton Administration officials is perhaps even more dangerous. We can't, and that's just the way our Federal government wants it. We want our young children to feel good about important holidays and seminal events, such as losing one's baby teeth.