Word: shielding
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...President insists that it's time to move away from the "balance of terror" concept that kept Cold War enemies from firing nuclear warheads against each other for fear of massive retaliation. Instead, he proposes a missile shield in concert with a dramatic reduction in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. But there?s nothing new or post-Cold War about this at all: President Ronald Reagan essentially proposed the same thing with his "Star Wars" scheme. And while President Bush's emphasis was on land- and sea-based missile defenses, the net effect would be the same - which, of course, makes...
President Bush's proposed missile shield has been dubbed the ultimate faith-based initiative, and it's easy to see why: Asking America to spend tens of billions of dollars on a system that has thus far shown precious little technical ability to do its job certainly requires a substantial leap of faith - not least because the threat it's designed to counter appears to rank pretty low on the scale of clear and present dangers to U.S. security...
...intermediate-range missile attacks - the focus of National Missile Defense remains protecting U.S. borders from attacks by intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). And for all of President Bush's efforts to present this as a new weapons platform for new times, it's hard to avoid seeing that missile shield as well, retro...
...this is not post-Cold War thinking, as President Bush insists; it's Cold War thinking. A missile shield makes sense as a trump-card if you?re anticipating a large-scale exchange of missiles with a rival nuclear power. But in a post-Cold War world in which, as President Bush insists, the primary threat to the U.S. comes from "rogue states" engaged in regional conflicts with Washington or its allies, it's hard to imagine why an enemy looking to land a weapon of mass destruction on U.S. soil would choose an ICBM as his delivery system...
...benefits and programs to boost literacy and improve their job skills—but which also shot down a living wage. In the year-plus since, administrators have referred time and again to these moderate reforms as proof that they care. But they have also used them as a shield against the living wage campaign’s response that free museum passes and computer skills may be wonderful, but they don’t pay the rent...