NMD FAILS TO WORK BECAUSE NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND BE DELIVERED INA NUMBER OF WAYS Kenneth N. Waltz. Nuclear Myths and Political Realities The American Political Science Review, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep, 1990), p. 742. Nuclear weapons are small and light they are easy to move, easy to hide, and easy to deliver in a variety of ways. Even an unimaginably perfect defense against ballistic missiles would fail to negate nuclear weapons. Such a defense would instead put a premium on the other side's ability to deliver nuclear weapons indifferent ways firing missiles on depressed trajectories, carrying bombs in suitcases placing nuclear warheads on freighters to be anchored in American harbors Indeed someone has suggested that the Soviet Union can always hide warheads in bales of marijuana, knowing we cannot keep them from crossing our borders. To have even modestly effective defenses we would, among other things, have to become a police state. We would have to go to extraordinary lengths to police our borders and exercise control within them.
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