Radical plan to send US arms bill soaring

: “…major change in military

priorities as Washington shifts its sights from Europe to Asia

and from spending on the army to spending on the navy, the air

force and on hi-tech weaponry including missile defences.” The Guardian The broken promise: “Why is

Bush cutting the

budget for

anti-nuclear

proliferation

programs when he

said he’d increase it?” Salon National Missile Defense: An Indefensible System. “Although it is now

technically feasible to “hit a bullet with a bullet” on the test range, adversaries would be able to take

straightforward steps to defeat this system, not only preventing it from achieving the high levels of

effectiveness claimed for it, but also precluding any significant security benefits. Worse still, deploying

such a system would open a Pandora’s box of problems for the United States, unraveling decades of

efforts to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to limit proliferation of nuclear weapons and

ballistic missiles worldwide.” Foreign Policy