Official Shrugs Off a U.S. Missile Defense
Russian Defense Minister Igor D. Sergeyev dismissed a proposed U.S. national missile defense as ineffective, saying that it could easily be defeated by the Soviet technologies developed in the 1980s to oppose President Reagan’s “Star Wars” plan.
“We had three mighty programs to asymmetrically counteract U.S. national missile defenses during Reagan’s ‘Star Wars,’ ” Sergeyev was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Such methods could include adding more warheads to Russia’s new single-warhead Topol-M missile or using decoy warheads to confuse defenders.
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