Panel: Trump Must Make a Choice in European Ballistic Missile Defense
By: John Grady
February 17, 2017 12:12 PM
The question facing the Trump administration on European ballistic missile defense is: should the United State go ahead with the next phase of the program or pause to let serious discussion with the Russia begin on nuclear proliferation and arms control.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies used a debate format to look at possible ways ahead in deploying the Aegis Ashore system in Poland. Ground was broken for the site last year and a separate system is already deployed in Romania.
Frank Rose, a former assistant secretary of state for arms control in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations doubted Russia’s sincerity in saying that it wants to proceed to larger discussions. “They just move on to the next phase” of objecting to the deployment of a defense system aimed at Tehran.
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