The mysteries of Jenna Bush. So really, it's about getting rid of this treaty. I don't know whether they're going to do it tomorrow or whether they're going to hold off, he didn't give any timetable. The fact is that there is no system he can possibly deploy during his first term. What the Pentagon is saying now about the ground-based interceptor that's being tested won't be deployed until 2006.
Deterrence already exists.
Then the question is whether they're actually going to do anything different otherwise. Bill Hartung is a fellow of the World Policy Institute. Russia was not that important a consideration for our security, which is a little strange considering that they're still sitting on thousands of nuclear weapons, that they don't really have control of their military in the way that they did during the Cold War. I would think that alone would be a reason to still consider them an important potential threat. But it seems like he's more concerned with the countries that don't actually have the capability to reach us yet, more than the ones who have nuclear weapons.