December 7, 2001
The Misguided Quest for a Missile-Defense System
Since the 1950s, the United States has toyed with a system of missile defense that has cost $100-billion but that does not work and probably never will. That is the claim of three veteran advisers on defense strategy in The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion (Praeger) -- Craig Eisendrath, a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy; Gerald E. Marsh, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory; and Melvin A. Goodman, a professor of national security
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