Archie to SAM: A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air ...

BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE IN THE 1990S
Russia and the United States, especially in the wake of the
September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, held the
promise of even wider collaboration in the future (fig. 100). 83
Figure 100. Airborne laser. One futurist ABM weapon is the airborne
laser. Seven of these aircraft are scheduled to enter service before the
end of the decade. (Reprinted from http://www.sargentfletcher.com/bus_dew/
yalla.jpg.)
Notes
1. David Dennon, Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era (Boulder:
Westview Press, 1995), 11.
2. Donald Baucom, The Origins of SDI, 1944–1983 (Lawrence, Kans.:
University Press of Kansas, 1992), 199; Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
(BMDO), “Fact Sheet: Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Budgetary History,”
http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bndolink/htm/tmd.html; Dennon,
Ballistic Missile Defense, 8–10; General Accounting Office, Theater Missile
Defense Program: Funding and Personnel Requirements Are Not Fully Defined,
December 1992, 1–2, AUL; James Lindsay and Michael O’Hanlon, Defending
America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense (Washington, D.C.:
Brookings Institution, 2001), 114.
3. BMD funding shifted from $1,103 million on TMD in 1993 and $1,886
million on NMD to $1,646 million and $553 million in 1994. See BMDO,
“Fact Sheet,” 1.
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