Missile Defense Delusion: Sen. Joe Biden argues not only that abrogating the ABM treaty to pursue NMD will trigger a new arms race and that it will squander resources on threats the Pentagon itself assesses as low-priority, but that by provoking what defense analysts estimate will be at least a tenfold increase in China’s arsenal as well as inflation of the Indian and Pakistani n-weapons stables, we vastly increase the risk of a bin Laden getting his hands on a thermonuclear device. Not to mention the continuing stupidity of unilateralism at this point in history. Not to mention the technological unfeasibility of the intercept concept. Every time I rant about NMD, I suggest that, if we are serious in asserting that NMD is in the service of peace and stability, that we are defending only against rogue threats and that the other bona fide nuclear states have nothing to fear, we should share our anti-missile technology freely and magnanimously with Russia and China. If you can point me to links that counter this argument, please do. Washington Post