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Table of Contents

To Lissa

And to Wynne, Cole, and Max

Cast of Characters

Madeleine Albright	Secretary of State under Clinton
Steve Andreasen	NSC director for defense policy and arms control
Robert Bell	NSC special assistant to the President for defense policy and arms control
Samuel Sandy Berger	National security adviser to Clinton
Joseph Biden	Democratic senator from Delaware
James Bodner	Deputy undersecretary of Defense for policy
George W. Bush	President of the United States
Stephen Cambone	Senior aide to Rumsfeld
Bill Carpenter	Raytheon executive who managed the kill vehicle program
Richard Cheney	Vice president of the United States under George W. Bush
Bill Clinton	President of the United States
Thad Cochran	Republican senator from Mississippi
William Cohen	Secretary of Defense under Clinton, 19972001
Philip Coyle	Pentagon director of operational testing and evaluation
Keith Englander	Technical director of the National Missile Defense program
Leon Fuerth	National security adviser to Vice President Gore
Jacques Gansler	Undersecretary of Defense for acquisition
Richard Garwin	Physicist
Al Gore	Vice president of the United States under Clinton, Democratic presidential candidate in 2000
Mort Halperin	Director of State Departments policy plan ning staff
John Hamre	Deputy secretary of Defense under Clinton
Jesse Helms	Republican senator from North Carolina
John Holum	Senior adviser for arms control and interna tional security at the State Department
Igor Ivanov	Foreign minister of Russia
Sergei Ivanov	National security adviser to Putin, now min ister of Defense
Lieutenant General Ronald Kadish	Director of the Ballistic Missile
Defense Organization
Carl Levin	Democratic senator from Michigan
Jack Lew	Director of Office of Management and Budget
Georgi Mamedov	Deputy foreign minister of Russia
Hans Mark	Deputy undersecretary of Defense for research and engineering
Sylvia Matthews	Deputy director of Office of Management and Budget
Ron Meyer	Deputy program manager of Raytheons kill vehicle program
Admiral Richard Mies	Commander-in-chief of U.S. Strategic Command
Frank Miller	Principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for strategy and threat reduction
Major General Willie Nance, Jr.	Director of the National Missile
Defense program
John Peller	Boeing program manager for National Missile Defense
William Perry	Secretary of Defense under Clinton, 19941997
John Podesta	Chief of staff to Clinton
Theodore Postol	MIT professor
Colin Powell	Secretary of State under George W. Bush
Vladimir Putin	President of Russia
General Joseph Ralston	Vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Donald Rumsfeld	Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush
General Henry Hugh Shelton	Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Walter Slocombe	Undersecretary of Defense for policy
Robert Soule	Director of Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation
James Steinberg	Deputy national security adviser to Clinton
Strobe Talbott	Deputy secretary of State
Edward Ted Warner	Assistant secretary of Defense for strategy and threat reduction
Larry Welch	President of Institute for Defense Analyses
Curt Weldon	Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
Paul Wolfowitz	Deputy secretary of Defense under George W. Bush

Chronology

1944	Germany launches V-2 missile attacks against Britain.
1957	Soviet Union tests its first ICBM and launches Sputnik satellite.
1962	Armys Zeus missile interceptor, fired from Kwajalein Atoll, passes within two kilometers of mock warhead shot from California, or close enough to destroy it with a nuclear blast.
1963	Development of Nike-X system initiated with plan to use a combination of short-range Sprint and extended-range Spartan missiles.
1964	Soviet Union first detected developing Galosh antimissile system around Moscow.
1966	China fires its first nuclear-armed missile.
1967	Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announces plan to proceed with Sentinel system to protect U.S. cities from Chinese attack.
1969	President Richard Nixon opts for Safeguard system, relocating planned defensive sites out of metropoli tan areas and centering them on offensive U.S. mis sile silos.
1972	Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed, along with the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I).
1974	ABM Treaty protocol reduces the number of permit ted missile defense sites to one each in the United States and the Soviet Union.
1975	Safeguard starts operating in North Dakota but clos es after several months.
1982	U.S. Army tests HOE, a prototype hit-to-kill antimis sile system.
1983	President Ronald Reagan calls for research on an antimissile shield that will render nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
1984	Strategic Defense Initiative Organization established.
1989	The Berlin Wall comes down.
1991	George Bush scales back notion for an antimissile system, proposing GPALS to guard the United States and allies against limited attack. U.S. and allied forces evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War. The first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) is concluded in July, a month before a coup attempt against Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev precipitates the breakup of the Soviet Union. Congress passes the Missile Defense Act call ing for deployment of an ABM Treatycompliant defense by 1996.
1993	Bush and Gorbachev sign START II. Bill Clinton takes office, and within four months his Defense secretary declares the end of the Star Wars era, shift ing emphasis to development of battlefield antimissile systems.
1994	The Republican Partys Contract with America calls for renewed commitment to national missile defense.
1995	A National Intelligence Estimate concludes that no new missile threat to the continental United States will emerge in the next fifteen years.

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