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Missed. Again. The $12.5 billion U.S. National Missile Defense (NMD) program suffered another setback Tuesday night when it failed its most elaborate test to date. An interceptor missile fired from a Pacific atoll failed to hit a mock warhead deployed by a missile fired in California. Although the system managed to destroy a mock warhead last October, it was later reported to have been a lucky accident after the interceptor missile had locked on to a decoy balloon that drifted close to the target. "I call the Pentagon all the time and sometimes they can?t transfer my calls...