Jeffrey St Clair, 2000: "The Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization projects the cost of the system at $36 billion, a typically modest appraisal. The Congressional Budget Office has come up with a slightly more robust number of $60 billion - a figure the government auditors admit is little more than a rough guess, since the administration hasn't yet put forward details on the next two phases of the plan. But even that number was enough to stagger some of the plan's most ardent backers. "That's out of sync with anything I've seen," said Rep. Curt Weldon, the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Armed Services Committee's panel on military research and development. "But you can't put a price tag on protecting American cities."
NYT 8.8.2012: "The United States and its Arab allies are knitting together a regional missile defense system across the Persian Gulf to protect cities, oil refineries, pipelines and military bases from an Iranian attack, according to government officials and public documents. "
Interview Sept 2012 (upl 28.01.2013) Reykjavik 1986 The Cold War Mindset The nuclear complex Proliferation through Atoms for peace, the US program for giving away enriched uranium to allies like Pakistan Maybe the time has come for unilateral US reductions ? (Reagan adviser Perrot?)