has been in the works since the early days of the Obama administration. But pushback from the arms control community has intensified over the past two years, notably after former Defense Secretary William Perry called for the cancellation of the program.
Has been in the works since early Soetero, but only now smeared as controversial.
The book "Raising Heaven and Earth" (William B. Harwood) talks about a good-old-days guided missile perfected by Martin Marietta that could put the nose of a missile launched, say, from LA, into a basketball hoop in, say, D.C. It was so scary that the Russians made that a priority to get rid of. They won't agree to further arms reductions (apart from actually using them in a nuclear war) unless they're faced with insurmountable technology. Plus, **** them and their disarmament lapdogs.
