The Next Steps for Missile Defense

Congress and the American people need to understand that, despiterecent progress in putting missile defense systems in the field,the U.S. remains largely vulnerable to the ballistic missilethreat. The Bush Administration and Congress need to accelerate theeffort to develop and deploy effective missile defense by focusingon systems that offer the greatest capability.

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