historically, there are many reasons for us to worry about the information coming from our early warning systems, even if they're functioning. I'm just thinking of the 1979 case where a technician had accidentally run a war game at NORAD and we almost went to war or 1983, the false alarm on the USSR side. Yes, exactly. Just as there is a, just as when engineers build technology, they want to use it. When you have a weapon in your arsenal and you are unsure of where the threat is coming from, there's a tendency to use it. All right. And just to clarify, we've used the term ASAT frequently during this interview. ASATs refer to anti-satellite weapons. And when you're talking about kinetic again, to reiterate, when you were saying that the Chinese were flying by their other satellite, what they were doing was they were, the threat was that they would ram into their satellite, and that is how they disabled it and broke it into pieces. I want to clarify one other thing on debris, and then I (27/57)
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