Still a dud

Finally got to make that missile defense test. (Remember? The bazillion dollar one that we'll use to defend ourselves if our enemies attack when the weather is clear?) The test, which was postponed twice because of bad weather, cost us $85 million.

After a rocket carrying a mock warhead as a target was launched from Kodiak, Alaska, the interceptor, which was intended to go aloft 16 minutes later and home in on the target 100 miles over the earth, automatically shut down because of "an unknown anomaly," according to the Missile Defense Agency of the Defense Department.

The launching had been planned as the first full test in two years of this element of the Bush administration's effort to deploy a multilayered missile defense shield.

NY Times article