(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002) Fetter, Steve; Glaser, Charles L.
The Authors Reply:
We agree with many of the points that James Lindsay and Michael O’Hanlon make in
their response to our article. Where we disagree, it is mostly on judgments of the likelihood
of various scenarios and the perceptions of future leaders of the value of missile
defense systems that now exist only on paper. On the broad spectrum of opinion that
deŽnes current U.S. debate over national missile defense—from complete opposition to
support for full-scale deployment of a multilayer NMD designed to undermine Russian
and Chinese nuclear retaliatory capabilities—our policy conclusions are fairly close to
theirs. There are, however, differences in both our analysis and our conclusions that are
worth exploring.
