of Defense Les Aspin liked to say. In 1995, in a series of Congressional bills, Congress showed what it thought about Clinton’s budget cuts by mandating the deployment of a national missile defense program, and authorizing the funding to make it happen. Clinton responded by vetoing the bills, and eventually the three-plus-three compromise was reached. This compromise allowed three more years of research, and if successful, in three more years an NMD system would be implemented. The Clinton administration has already blown the initial 1999 deadline for a full systems test. However, after this test does occur the U.S. will be able to, in three years and if the threat warrants it, deploy a ABM system.(Timmerman)Mott 6Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said, "There is a threat, and the threat is growing, and we expect it to pose a danger not only to our troops overseas, but also to Americans here at home".(Richter) Until the day that all nuclear weapons are destroyed, the United States must have a plausible way of defending itself from foreign invaders. Without an ABM system the United States is a sitting duck in the world pond just waiting to be pulled under water by any country with the capabilities to launch a few rockets. ...
