At 08:58 PM 4/2/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>Not that any of this should be taken to mean that I
>think leaving the treaty was a good idea. Dan has
>managed to convince me (absent classified evidence
>otherwise, at least) that the technology for missile
>defense is so unready that there's not really any
>point to the exercise - so why pay the price if you're
>not getting any benefits?
For two reasons. One, the price of withdrawing from ABM at this point
seems to have been trivially small.
Secondly, the ABM treaty even prevented *research* into ABM systems.
Developing missile defense in the mid-terms is quickly becoming a moral
imperative in this war. The ABM treaty would never even let us get there.
JDG
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