Missile Defense Pro-Con

Supporting Ballistic Missile Defense

President George W. Bush Announces Intial Missile Defense Deployment for 2004
December 17, 2002

Bush Speech ,
May 1, 2001

New Leadership on National Security , George W. Bush, May 23, 2000

Conclusions of the Commission to Assess The Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (The Rumsfeld Commission)

2000 DoD Strategy Report for Europe and NATO Excerpt on Ballistic Missile Defenses

Statement by Henry Kissinger

Feith and Zell Law Firm: Memorandum of Law
May 25, 1999

David Rivkin and Lee Casey, Statement on the legal status of the ABM Treaty ,
May 25, 1999

President Reagan Announces the Strategic Defense Initiative
March 23, 1983

Opposing Ballistic Missile Defense

Deploy First. Develop Later?
Why Bush's Plan to Deploy Flawed Missile Defense Meets Little Resistance
by Devon Chaffee, December 20, 2002

Smoke and Mirrors Security
Rep Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, June 17, 2002

Farewell to the ABM Treaty
David Krieger, June 13, 2002

Senior Ranking Democrats respond to Bush's propsoal

Statement of UN Secretary General on Bush's speech

Statement of Russian President Putin on Strategic Reductions and Preservation of the ABM Treaty

Joint Statement of the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of the Russian

Joint Statement by the Presidents of the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation on Anti-Missile Defense

Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., "Opposing the 'National Missile Defense Act,'" March 16, 1999

Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Statement on Ballistic Missile Defense Technology ,
May 4, 1999

Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Statement on ABM Treaty ,
May 5, 1999