Anti-Missile Defense Systems

Archive Report

Current Debate on Anti-Missile Systems

Administration Errort to Avert New Arms Race

Reconvening of the Geneva Disarmament Conference on February 21 may afford opportunities to broaden and reinforce efforts already under way to ward off a new and extremely costly arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara told newsmen at the LBJ Ranch on Nov. 10, 1966, that this country had “considerable evidence” that the Soviets had begun to deploy an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system. The predictable effect of the announcement was to generate increased pressure in Congress and elsewhere to accelerate the development of, and to deploy, a similar American system. The Defense Department has estimated that full deployment of such a system would cost the United ...

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