MIT Professor: U.S. Should Take Up Russia's Offer
To Build Joint Missile Defense System
To Build Joint Missile Defense System
Russia Today TV interviews Theodore Postol, Professor of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For more on this topic, check out Real Russia Project director Yuri Mamchur's commentary on the question, "How Serious is All This Talk of A New Cold War?" at the International Affairs Forum website. On the topic of missile defense, you can read more in these Russia Blog articles:
Take Up Putin's Offer by former Ambassador to the United Nations Organization Bruce Chapman
Ballistic Insults: The War of Words Over Missile Defense by Charles Ganske
Who Wants a New Cold War? by Yuri Mamchur
It's a very good idea, certainly would diffuse many of these "New Cold Warriors" on both sides of the fence. The US stands to gain more through cooperation than Russia, however. I don't see this happening with the current U.S. president, for sure.
Pragmatic leadership that abandon's the zero-sum Cold War thinking is required for something like this. In effect, it is one step towards including Russia within NATO - and wouldn't that be a pisser? I am quite sure that George W. Bush and the people he surrounds himself with do NOT fit that bill. I don't think Putin fits that bill either - he often lapses into US vs. THEM thinking (perhaps that is a response to US actions, but it is there none the less).