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BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE IN THE 1990S the summer of that year was critical. 70 Before the event, some claimed that the upcoming test was rigged. An article in Time stated that “little is being left to chance . . . . So little, in fact, that this may be a test in name only—an expensive piece of Potemkin performance art to win enormous military appropriations.” 71 In any event, the program suffered a twin failure on 8 July 2000, when the kill vehicle failed to separate from the booster, and the balloon decoy did not deploy from the target missile. The Los Angeles Times called it a “spectacular test failure” and a “debacle of monumental proportions.” 72 In addition, while a neutral observer might consider the incident a nontest, certainly it was bad public relations and politics. With only one success on three attempts, diplomatic pressure from friends and nonfriends alike, domestic pressure magnified by the media, and escalating cost estimates, President Clinton was under great pressure to cancel the program. The close presidential election campaign did not help matters. On 1 September 2000, he announced that he was postponing a decision, leaving that responsibility to his successor. 73 George W. Bush and BMD That successor turned out to be the more enthusiastic BMD supporter of the two presidential candidates, Republican George W. Bush. With his election, the path of the BMD took another turn. In May 2000, well before the election heated up, candidate Bush proposed deep unilateral cuts of nuclear weapons along with a robust BMD that would be shared with allies and at a more distant date shared with both the Russians and Chinese. 74 Shortly after Bush’s election, the Russians suggested an arrangement that would exchange cuts in offensive weapons for some level of cuts in defensive weapons. In mid- November, the commander of Russia’s missile forces proposed a scheme that would limit each side to an agreed-upon number of offensive and defensive weapons but allow each to decide the exact mix. Bush repeated his call in January 2001 for building the BMD and nuclear arms reduction; he also seemed willing to consider the Russian proposal. 75 257
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE IN THE 1990S By early 2001, the Russians were no longer pushing their joint BPI concept. They and the American allies had reluctantly accepted the idea that the new administration was going forward with BMD. In late February 2001, the New York Times reported that the Russians had begun serious talks about BMD. The Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, stated that “we are ready and interested in starting a direct dialogue with the US administration.” 76 For their part, the Europeans saw the way things were going and tried to make the best of the situation. There was press speculation that the Europeans would accept the American BMD plan in exchange for US acceptance of a proposed European Union deployment force that would be separate from NATO. 77 President Bush continued to push NMD despite domestic and foreign criticism. The administration asked Congress to increase missile defense spending from $3 billion to $8.3 billion. At the same time, there were reports that the Pentagon planned to notify Congress that it would begin building a missile-defense test range in Alaska. Not only was this in violation of the 1972 ABM treaty that limited testing to White Sands, New Mexico, and Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, but this facility could also be used for an emergency deployment. The Alaska site could field 10 interceptor missiles. This helps explains the high-level view that the testing could conflict with the treaty “within months, not years.” 78 The first two years of the Bush administration produced three sets of events critical to BMD development. The first event involved domestic politics: in June 2001, power in the US Senate shifted from Republican to Democratic hands. NMD was a signature issue for the Republicans, while the Democrats have been much more reluctant; the Republicans have tended to favor armaments, while the Democrats advocated treaties to deal with international threats. Or, in the incendiary words of the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, “It’s the difference between those who would rely on lawyers to defend America and those who would rely on engineers and scientists.” 79 Thus, NMD certainly will have a more difficult route than appeared to be the case after the November 1990 258
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