This should hold us over until we develop a thorough, sophisticated land-based antiballistic missile system.

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On the JDS Kongo, one of four Aegis electronic warfare destroyers (two more are under construction) that will be fitted with Japan's first antiballistic missile system, elderly ladies cooled themselves with paper fans bearing the ship's name.

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But building the system would violate the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, and Moscow has not only refused to negotiate a loophole for Washington, but has warned that violating the treaty will void all subsequent arms control agreements and precipitate a new arms race.

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No American, let alone our allies in the Middle East, can help but rejoice that the Reagan administration succeeded in taking the first, tenuous steps away from perpetual U.S. vulnerability by upgrading the Patriot air defense system to give it modest antiballistic missile capabilities.

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