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Rationale Disconnect: Missile Defense Foes Advance Conflicting Arguments On ABL, GMD

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GMD Foes Say It Hasn't Been Tested Against Countermeasures, But Then They Knock ABL Which Nails Missiles Despite Countermeasures As a full-scale battle opens this year over funding for missile defense systems, disconnects have arisen in arguments advanced by those pushing to slash funds for those programs. On the one hand, missile defense critics in Congress have assailed the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system because -- even though it successfully knocked down target missiles in tests -- it hasn't yet…

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