Nothing will do more to reinvigorate their obstructionism than the perception that the President is not serious about actually deploying systems that protect against ballistic missile attack, that he could perhaps be bought off with a deal with Vladimir Putin that somehow allows nothing more than greater latitude for development and testing of anti-missile systems and perhaps not much of that.
Nothing will do more to reinvigorate their obstructionism than the perception that the President is not serious about actually deploying systems that protect against ballistic missile attack, that he could perhaps be bought off with a deal with Vladimir Putin that somehow allows nothing more than greater latitude for development and testing of anti-missile systems -- and perhaps not much of that.
The Center judges that despite such reductions a vigorous development effort could nonetheless be mounted leading to an early deployment option for effective defenses provided the Defense Department has the latitude to use resources efficiently.