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When in his Victory Day speech on May 9 Vladimir Putin compared the United States to the Third Reich,he was setting a new standard in anti-Western rhetoric.Now any gathering which passes without similar comparisons will be regarded as a relative success,as was the case at the summit at the Bush family estate in Kennebunkport that has just ended.This dialogue of the deaf on the issue of missile defense did not conclude with a public row,but with the setting up of a working group to continue the fruitless discussion.The project to create a hugely expensive ABM system of highly questionable military effectiveness against even single missile attacks by pariah states has been under discussion for the past quarter of a century.During the 1990s, a Russo-American seminar on nuclear strategy was regularly held in the little Italian town of Erice.In an informal setting, I once asked the 85-year old patriarch of American physics, and father of the Star Wars program, Edward Teller, “How on earth did you manage to persuade Reagan that the idea of anti-ballistic missile defense was feasible?” “Young man,” he replied, “I needed money for interesting physics.”The new version of the ABM defense system being deployed by the U.S. also involves some very interesting physics and huge sums of money. It may even prove effective against the threat of a couple of Iranian missiles. What is absolutely clear, however, and fully recognized by every serious military analyst in Russia, is that this project is no threat to Russia’s nuclear deterrent capability.Russia and the U.S. will continue to enjoy a remarkable capacity to destroy each other many times over...To read more go to:
http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=5041
As in the days of Noah....
