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Defending missile defense. (Correction, Please!).(Brief Article)
ITEM: When the Pentagon announced it would deploy missile defenses, ABC'S John McWethy complained on December 17th that, "the administration plans to spend $17 billion to rush into the field a system that may not work against a threat that critics say is remote."
ITEM: The same night, NBC Nightly News' Tom Brokaw planted more doubts. For instance: "The dream of a missile shield goes back to the Reagan Administration Star Wars program. The hang-ups have always been cost and the fact that the technology is not always reliable."
CORRECTION: Will missile defense be perfect against all threats when first deployed? Certainly not. Indeed, the idea is to put land-based interceptors in Alaska and California by 2004 to protect against a limited missile attack from regimes such as North Korea -- which is rapidly improving its long-range nuclear capability.
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