Excellent analysis and discussion. Thank you.
IMHO, the issue is a lot bigger. John Kerry is reflexively against any technology that will make the USA stronger or better able to defend itself. His votes over 20 years in the Senate show that.
What about technologies other than nuclear bunker busters or missile defense? My guess is that we have or soon will have subsonic unmanned air vehicles that can carry a large number of smart bombs, a supersonic manueverable unmanned bomber, high supersonic vehicles for observation and intelligence, anti-satellite beam weapons, anti-satellite kinetic weapons, defenses for anti-satellite weapons, etc. I'm sure there are many more that I don't know about or can;t imagine.
The real villain in the world in 10 years will be China. Will Kerry negotiate with them too to reduce weapons systems? Of course he will, given the chance, and we'll get snookered.
Kerry scares me...like Gore did. They never met a dictator they didn't love, and they trust those dictators to tell the truth and bargain in good faith - summits, negotiations, agreements, sanctions, etc.
Kerry's idea on providing Iran with fissionable material is the same liberal B/S idea that got us screwed with Korea.
Why not execute 1/3 of Americans now and nuke Israel now becuase that will be the outcome...