Putin Says Russia Would Counter U.S. Shield — “President

Vladimir V. Putin said today that if

the United States proceeded on its own to

construct a missile defense shield over its

territory and that of its allies, Russia would

eventually upgrade its strategic nuclear

arsenal with multiple warheads — reversing

an achievement of arms control in recent

decades — to ensure that it would be able

to overwhelm such a shield.” That’s all it would take to render missile defense moot (oh, except against piddling little ‘rogue states’; does anyone really believe it’s meant to defend against them? really?), billions of American dollars wasted, and decades of painstaking gains in stabilizing the arms race flushed down the toilet.

I wondered if NMD is driving anyone to tax resistance to take a moral stand against complicity in this madness. Here’s a Google search on “tax resistance” and “national missile defense”.