Chertoff goes on to suggest obliquely that demonstrating retaliatory capability in this way might be onemethod of deriving a deterrence function from US technical superiority in this field.
What Hastings should really get credit for, though, is the diligence with which he prepared the way for his vision and that method is one that others can emulate.
Once confined to closed rooms with oneway mirrors, research via focus groups used to be the accepted method for trying out new concepts and discovering new opportunities.