An influential member of the Dumasaid this month that a compromise on the ABM Treaty was possible and would probably include steep cuts in the limits on strategic warheads and an end to the ban on MIRVs, missiles that can hit more than one target.
Stefan Duma, a Virginia Tech professor who is studying the issue, said it would be "incorrect" to rely too much on small pools of brain donors whose families may have suspected there was something amiss.