I think it is clear that the Alliance has shown that it can take in new members as it did recently, a couple of years ago, and within a short period of time those new members are fully integrated and making contribution to the Alliance. And so the Alliance is open for enlargement and the pace and the circumstances and the conditions of enlargement will be made know in due course. Are you pleased that unlike in earlier communiqu s, this NATO communiqu makes no mention of the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty as the corner stone of strategic stability. I must admit I did not go through the lengthy communiqu looking for the acronym ABM, but I must say that it didn't warrant particular attention this time around. I didn't take a poll around the room of everybody's views, but I think I can safely say that there is recognition that there is a threat out there.
Some people see it as a more immediate than others.
Some people see it as greater than perhaps others. I don't think there is any question that there is some sort of a threat out there. And it would be irresponsible for the United States, as a nation with the capability to do something about such a threat, not to do something about such a threat by examining the technologies that might deal with these threats weather these threats are there tomorrow, a year from now, two years from now or five years from now. If you want to have the systems that can deal with such threats, you don't wait until they are pointed at your heart. You start working on it now.