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...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...
...torch, in a more limited version it also has the support of a number of Senate Democrats, Europeans and even the Russians - a sea-launched "boost phase" system designed to intercept missiles before they leave the atmosphere, rather than the current ground-based system designed to intercept an incoming warhead in space. (Moscow like it because it could effectively neutralize "rogue" state missiles, but not ICBMs fired from deep inside the Russian heartland.) But opting for such a system means pretty much starting from scratch, and pouring billions of dollars into a system that will take some time to develop...
...Russia has made overtures about cutting a deal with the U.S. over the endangered abm treaty?perhaps in exchange for economic aid and bilateral warhead reductions?which would allow Bush to go forward with a clear conscience. Opponents of nmd in Europe suspect that, sooner or later, America?s missile shield dreams will become a reality. And some have started to say that Europeans should not expend too much capital trying to stop it. ?Their time would be better spent praying the technological challenges prove too difficult to overcome,? says Dominique Mo?si of the French Institute on International Relations...
...idea that wasn't on the table in the first place: after spending more than a year studying the arms race as a young Congressman in the 1980s, Gore latched onto a proposal that split the difference between the cold warriors and the nuclear-disarmament camp, a single-warhead missile dubbed the Midgetman. Gore's plan helped produce a compromise that united Ronald Reagan with moderate Democrats on reviving the MX missile...
...saga began in 1995, when a walk-in source gave the CIA a document from the People's Republic of China that claimed Chinese weapons designers had obtained specific and highly classified details of an American nuclear warhead known as the W-88. Not everyone in the intelligence community was convinced the document was genuine. The DOE and the FBI, which handles spy catching, quickly learned that several agencies and some defense contractors had information about the W-88, and concluded that the leak had probably occurred at the weapons lab at Los Alamos, where most of the data were...