Defending America: Ending America's Vulnerability to Ballistic Missiles

Publication Date: September 2002

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

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Research Area: Military and defense

Keywords: Missile defense

Type: Report

Abstract:

The Clinton Administration refuses to give serious consideration to building an effective missile defense program, whether to protect the U.S. homeland or U.S. troops abroad. Team B continues to recommend that global defenses be deployed urgently-initially from the sea and then from space. These are the least expensive and most effective defenses possible, and the U.S. can begin their deployment by the end of the decade if it has the political will to do so. As Team B concluded in 1995, the ultimate issue in the missile defense debate is not technology, nor even cost, but political will.