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United States National Missile Defence
From:
RUSI Journal
| Date:
February 1, 2001| Author:
Quinlan, Michael
| Copyright Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies Feb 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information
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Among the issues facing President Bush as he takes up office none will engage keener international interest than National Missile Defence (NMD) - the idea of providing for the United States homeland (as distinct from US forces deployed elsewhere) a system to destroy ballistic missiles in flight. This idea was pursued in the 1960s before in 1972 the Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty (ABM) bargain with the Soviet Union largely closed it off as unhelpful to strategic stability. It was spectacularly ...
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