[Paul Ross]

I am sorry to disabuse you of your mis-statement about what Ronald Reagan was proposing. He explicitly intended only to offer sharing the technology AFTER we had the system deployed and up and running. Not before. Certainly he never intended to invite them into a joint planning capacity, which represents the clear opportunity to sabotage conceptual architecture, and veto the more effectual systems and deployments. So hence, this is an idea whose time should never have come so long as it is clear we have more of a geo-political adversary (albeit camouflaged by recent postures), rather than friend.

[rightwing2]

I am sorry to disabuse you of your mis-statement about what Ronald Reagan was proposing. He explicitly intended only to offer sharing the technology AFTER we had the system deployed and up and running. Not before.

Good point on Reagan wanting to give NMD tech to the Soviets only after our own NMD system had already been deployed. I had forgotten that one.