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46. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization,

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32. Bryan Bender, "Russia, USA Shake Hands on

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47. Ibid.

1998, p. 4.

48. Ibid.

33. Walter Pincus, "U.S., China May Retarget

Nuclear Weapons: `Confidence-Building Symbol'

49. Ibid.

Would Have Little Military Significance, Official

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50. Ray Hall and David Mosher, "Budgetary

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35. Keith J. Costa, "North Korean Missile Launch

Gives Boost to Satellite Interceptor Effort," Inside

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51. Ibid.

36. Bradley Graham, "N. Korean Missile Threat Is

52. John Donnelly, "Pentagon: Alaska Best Site

Reassessed," Washington Post, September 25, 1998,

for National Missile Defense," Defense Week, June

p. A31.

15, 1998, p. 1.

37. Ibid.

53. Ibid., p. 8.

38. Michael C. Sirak, "EKV Prototypes

54. Ibid.

Discriminate `Spectacularly Well,' Boeing NMD

Chief Says," Inside Missile Defense, September 30,

55. John Donnelly, "NMD Cost Estimate Up 30

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Percent Since Last Week," Defense Week,

January 19, 1999, pp. 1, 11.

39. Ibid.

56. Ibid.

40. Ibid., p. 15.

57. Hall and Mosher, p. 2.

41. Quoted in ibid.

58. Ibid.

42. For a more technical discussion of counter-

measures, see George N. Lewis and Theodore A.

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Defense," IEEE Spectrum, September 1997,

(Washington: CBO, 1996), p. 1.

pp. 60­68.

60. Missile Defense Study Team, "Defending

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44. Steven Lee Myers, p. A1.

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