Correspondence: Limited National and Allied Missile Defense

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2002Author
Fetter, Steve
Glaser, Charles L.
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Charles L. Glaser and Steve Fetter, “Correspondence: Limited National and Allied Missile Defense,” International Security, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Spring 2002), pp. 190-201
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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
denes 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.
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Response to James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O'Hanlon