November 30, 2001
Scholars Need to Bring Creative Thinking to the Debate Over Missile Defense
The September 11 attacks briefly silenced the debate over National Missile Defense -- protection against long-range ballistic missiles. Yet NMD remains one of America's most-contentious foreign-policy issues, and indeed it has already re-emerged prominently in public discussion, as well as in the U.S.-Russian diplomatic agenda.
Yes, many argue that the nature of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon only proves how ill-imagined and wasteful NMD development would be.
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