[rightwing2]

While the US would be sure to benefit from the acquisition of Russian technology, which is unparalled in the area of missile defense, it is unclear whether the Russians could serve as trusted partners in a bid to help design, build and deploy a US missile defense system aimed at enhancing US national security. Joint development of such a system with Russia would enable Russia to be fully appraised regarding its vulnerabilities and what countermeasures it could best employ to defeat and neutralize it using a wide variety of asymmetric means.

This is a very scary and disturbing development. If the Russians help design and develop our missile defenses, they will, in all likelihood, be able to counteract and neutralize it in the event they decide to launch a nuclear first strike or limited nuclear attack against us.

[rightwing2]

BUMP!

[grobdriver]

This is a very scary and disturbing development. If the Russians help design and develop our missile defenses, they will, in all likelihood, be able to counteract and neutralize it in the event they decide to launch a nuclear first strike or limited nuclear attack against us.

I disagree.
President Reagan wanted to do this way back - build a missle defense system and share the technology with Russia.
The thought being that if each side could defend against the other's attack, there would be no point in attack capability.
I'm sure after we had worked together to get a basic system working, our people could tweak it to negate outside knowledge of its operation (adding security layers).

This is a good idea whose time is past due, IMHO.

[ffusco]

Its about geopolitics now, we must draw Russia into the euro fold. We need to isolate the chinese.The threat of a nuclear attack from Russia, which has the GNP of Portugal is laughable. Arms reductions will deny the black market plutonium, Star wars will deny the enemy a chance to attack us conventionally.