Last July, when you signed the National Missile Defense Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-38), making it thepolicyoftheUnitedStates to deploy an effective national missile defense system capable against limited threats as soon as the technology to do so is ready, you committed theUnitedStates in law to deploying a national missile defense system that would meet emerging threats.
Upon coming into office, the anti-nuclear zealots put into senior Administration posts in the Department of Energy, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, State and Defense Departments, Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Security Council saw to it that theUnitedStates would forego any further testing.
In a recent speech to the Center for Security Policy, former Secretary ofDefense Caspar W. Weinberger argued that such Western assistance to Moscow center put theUnitedStates and its allies squarely on the wrong side in the Soviet Union.