National Missile Defense also known as "Star Wars" is set to become a Joint US-Russia project
Mr Bush and Mr Putin will disclose at a meeting in Russia next week that they are to set up a joint committee to develop NMD. The announcement will accompany the signing of a treaty to cut both countries’ nuclear arsenals by thousands of warheads, which Mr Bush described this week as signalling the end of the Cold War.The groundwork for the discussions about the missile defence system was laid on Tuesday by John Bolton, the US Under-Secretary of State, at a meeting in Moscow with Georgy Mamedov, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister.
Just a few months ago, Putin rejected the idea of a missile shield. I wonder what changed his mind
Posted by Rich at May 17, 2002 1:43 AM