National Missile Defense System
Names: National Missile Defense SystemNMD
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 2 (Year 3, Crisis Era)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 2Its intercept headings were redirected into space as humanity's first planetary defense system, intended to destroy sophons unfolded in lower dimensions near Earth.
- Ch 2It launched a 1.5-megaton nuclear interceptor at discarded ISS reflective film because old target data had not been linked to the new recognition module.
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 2NMD false-target intercept
At Fort Greely the NMD launches a nuclear interceptor at discarded ISS film because of a database link failure; officers at NORAD mock it and Fitzroy is annoyed. The media later presents it as a successful sophon-intercept test.