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To: Ilaine who wrote (3956)	5/29/2001 8:23:37 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<1. National Missile Defense - is it destabilizing to the world balance of power?> Yes. The purported aim of NMD -- defense against rogue states with a missile or two and a nuclear bomb -- is laughably illogical. Such rogue states can hurt the US without risking instant national annihilation by simply smuggling the bomb into one of the millions of containers that pour every year into the US. They can then detonate the bomb at their leisure in the city of their choice with little chance of detection. Or the bomb can be rigged to explode at the port of entry before it even goes through inspection. A missile is a uniquely stupid way to deliver a single terrorist nuclear bomb into the US. Our adversaries seem to be a lot smarter than that -- remember the Cole! If NMD is so ineffective at protecting US cities from a terrorist nuclear bomb, what then is its real aim? It seems to me that the only logical conclusion is that NMD is only the first step toward an eventual full nuclear shield against a multi-missile attack from Russia or China. And, as such, it is highly destabilizing.