But the effects required at least six years of regular use.
VOA: special.2009.09.01
Dramatic effects may be required for Thompson to give new life to a story that so far has proved nothing more than the need for campaign-finance reform.
With thousands of warheads in the Russian arsenal and only a handful required to cause unprecedented destruction, it seemed impossible to develop the kind of near-perfect defenses required to mitigate the effects of a nuclear attack.