Word: warhead
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Missile defense is a far tougher sell than tax cuts, with a mountain of technical, political and diplomatic obstacles. The killer missile last week that destroyed a dummy warhead was only the second success in four tries. Defense-shield boosters hailed it as a significant victory, even if it was more important politically than technologically. And the Pentagon knows that, which is why advocates used the afterglow to roll out an array of planned "boost phase," "midcourse" and "terminal phase" experiments from land, sea, air and space bases...
...figured out how to get rid of it. Next I checked my Out box. Argh! Sixty-five messages were queued up, waiting to be sent to my friends. Each was from me. Each bore the subject line "Homepage." Each had a file attached, as doom-laden as a warhead...
...well that's the flip side of going ahead without a negotiated agreement. President Bush will certainly try to prevent that happening. The trouble with land-based multiple warhead missiles is that they're a very tempting target for a nuclear first strike, and therefore raise the level of nuclear tension...
...Bush-Rumsfeld speech, saying the U.S. "has violated the ABM Treaty, will destroy the balance of international security forces and could cause a new arms race." Beijing knows even the initially modest system proposed by Clinton--a fleet of 100 missiles designed to knock out as many as 25 warheads from the heavens--could render obsolete their 20 single-warhead, long-range missiles, which can reach the West Coast of America. Once that system is in place, Beijing's leverage with the U.S.--especially on the touchy topic of Taiwan--could be crippled...
...Washington. But those efforts are already underway, because China?s missile fleet's questionable capability and vulnerability to preemptive strike severely diminished its deterrent value. To overcome these limitations, China has been working on a ten-fold expansion of its current nuclear arsenal with mobile-launched, solid-fueled, multiple-warhead missiles. So Beijing?s response is more likely to be felt in the political and diplomatic arena, where it will react to missile defense as a further attempt by Washington to "contain" China...