Even the Pentagon admits the program is in trouble. “If the generals in charge of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency followed the wispiest trail of logic, they would have slashed the program and moved on to more promising pursuits long ago. This month brings yet another bit of news indicating not only that the program has scant chance of producing a workable missile-defense system, but that its managers know of its dim prospects.” — Fred Kaplan, Slate You should be following the missile defense debate as if your life depended on it. It does. NMD is the single factor that would most profoundly destabilize the balance of weapons terror and plunge us into a new nuclear arms race. Dubya’s legacy may well be written in ashes blowing in a contaminated wind if he and his henchmen push this through despite all reason.