Before 9/11 I wouldn't have worried about terrorists taking over and ICBM silo in the former USSR and launching it at us. Of course there's also the silo commander goes nuts and the accidental launch scenarios.
National Missile Defense is not about Russia. It's about the countries with only a few missiles now having the same deterrence as Russia and U.S. Come to think of it, we'll need to defend against France once their government switches to an Islamic theocracy.
Bull. When someone from the leftist Center for Defense Information says:
"The Cold War is far from over," she said. "It may just be entering a new phase."
She is echoing the point I have been making for many years. Amazing that these people would grasp this truth. The Cold War never ended. The Soviet Union did not "collapse". It morphed. We are dealing, after all, with the people who invented the Potemkin Village. And although they are supposedly "broke" they managed to design, test, and field a new generation of ICBMs...aimed at us.
--Boris