[Poohbah]

That article is from over two years ago, and there's been a get-well program since then.

Believe it or not, when hardware doesn't perform to spec in tests, it gets reworked and retested until it does.

Still, only a moron stakes the survival of his nation--whichever nation that is--on the combat performance of his nation's ICBM force. They just have not been combat-tested, and the results from "test and evaluation," where the missiles get checked out with a fine-tooth comb, are not encouraging.

[Paul Ross]

The story of the inaccuracy preceded the election in 2000. It was still not fixed as of this story. I personally haven't seen credible evidence that the degradation in performance was fixed. Note range as well as accuracy were impacted. That is not so easily tweaked.