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BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE IN THE 1990S
62. Dean Wilkening, “Keeping National Missile Defense in Perspective,”
Issues in Science and Technology (Winter 2001); and Lindsay and O’Hanlon,
Defending America, 89.
63. “Pentagon Delays Test of Defense Using Missiles,” New York Times,
22 March 2000; Steven Myers and Jane Perlez, “Documents Detail U.S. Plan
to Alter ’72 Missile Treaty,” New York Times, 28 April 2000; “Misdirected
Missile Defense Plan,” Los Angeles Times, 30 April 2000; and Robert Suro
and Steven Mufson, “GAO Report Finds Fault with Missile Shield Plan,”
Washington Post, 17 June 2000.
64. Center for Defense Information, National Missile Defense: What Does
It All Mean? (Washington, D.C.: Center for Defense Information, 2000), 4;
Michael Gordon, “North Korea Reported Open to Halting Missile Program,”
New York Times, 20 July 2000; and Steven Myers, “Russian Resistance Key
in Decision to Delay Missile Shield,” New York Times, 3 September 2000.
65. Ted Plafker, “China, Russia Unify Against U.S. Missile Shield,” Washington
Post, 19 July 2000.
66. American economic and military dominance was, of course, the major
factor in driving these two countries together.
67. Christopher Castelli, “Russian BPI Could Help Negate Missile from
North Korea, Iran, Iraq,” Inside the Navy, 19 February 2001; Michael Gordon,
“Joint Exercise on Missiles Seen for U.S. and Russia,” New York Times, 29
June 2000; and James Hackett, “Putin’s Missile Defense Policy,” Washington
Times, 21 July 2000.
68. Tom Bowman, “Consensus Grows for ‘Boost-Phase’ Missile Defense,”
Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2000.
69. Ibid.; David Hoffman, “Russian Generals Diverge from Putin-Clinton
Stance on Missile Threat,” Washington Post, 30 June 2000; and Eisendrath,
Goodman, and March, The Phantom Defense, 107.
70. Coyle, “Rhetoric or Reality?”; and Graham, Hit to Kill, 188.
71. Mark Thompson, “Missile Impossible?” Time, 10 July 2000.
72. Tom Plate, “The Costs of a Ridiculous ‘Defense,’ ” Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2000; and Tom Bowman, “Missile Defense Supporters Still Hopeful
After Failed Test,” Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2000.
73. Charles Babington, “Clinton’s Decision Presents Challenges to Gore,
Bush,” Washington Post, 2 September 2000.
74. Eric Schmitt, “In Search of a Missing Link in the Logic of Arms Control,”
New York Times, 16 July 2000.
75. John Barry, “Looking Forward to NMD,” Newsweek, 29 January
2001; Steven Myers, “Bush Repeats Call for Arms Reduction and Missile
Shield,” New York Times, 27 January 2001; and Miles Pomper, “Political
Turmoil May Up Odds for Missile Defense Accord,” Congressional Quarterly
Weekly, 18 November 2000.
76. Michael Gordon, “Moscow Signaling a Change in Tone on Missile Defense,”
New York Times, 22 February 2001.
77. Joseph Fitchett, “Bush Can’t Afford to Ignore Missile Defense, Envoys
Tell Europeans,” International Herald Tribune, 6 February 2001; and David
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