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...Advocates of the program are quick to point out Nunn-Lugar's impressive cost-benefit ratio: For slightly less than three-tenths of one percent of U.S. military expenditures, Nunn-Lugar has been responsible for deactivating 5014 warheads, destroying 384 ICBMs and eliminating 365 ICBM silos. And while Lugar a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, continues to lobby for funding for the program, the 2002 federal budget calls for cuts of about $140 million. That?s quite a hit for an initiative whose seven-year operating costs were only $3 billion - less than the annual cost...
...whips up around him each day is the moment when he retires to the men's room for a thorough perusal of the New York Times. One of his two outside interests is writing letters to Presidents and other political leaders on such topics as Viet Nam, the ICBM debate and school desegregation. His voluminous correspondence with four Administrations is filed in a cabinet at his ten-room colonial house in Brentwood, where he lives with his second wife, ex-Department Store Executive Frances Loeb, and their two daughters. His other interest is psychoanalysis. After some four years...
...Hold the ICBM; build the suitcase bomb. (That's if they were ever going to build an ICBM in the first place...
...There's no question that a missile shield designed to prevent an ICBM attack would leave us safer than we are now. But the real question is whether the threat of ICBM attack is that great that it warrants diverting so many U.S. resources into developing such a shield, or are their other ways of spending the same - or even a lot less - money that may make us even safer from ICBMs and other more imminent threats. Unfortunately that question is not being discussed in Washington, nor is it likely...
...they're afraid of that. The Joint Chiefs want it funded separately rather than out of the defense budget. They've said the terrorist threat is far greater from a suitcase bomb than from someone launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It's a lot easier, for example, to sail a boat to 200 miles off America's shores and then launch a nuclear tipped cruise missile flying below the radar, using a GPS (global positioning system) for guidance - and the missile defense scheme would not cover that threat. Why would anyone go to all the trouble and expense...