Missile defense reliably led to the craziest Cold War technologies, but for a lot of this stuff you have to find a grizzled veteran and get him drunk, and a lot more of it is classified beyond the reach of any alcohol
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Not throwing sand, but the Russian A-135 system uses nuclear-armed interceptor missiles. Nukes to kill nukes
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The terminal phase ones pretty much have to, because intercepting at Mach 20 is too hard. The idea behind the sand one was to detonate a buried nuke to throw debris into the path of arriving warheads. "Now you have two problems"
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