Link to Antimissile Drive The Soviet Union has also been using the Chernobyl disaster in its campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Arm of Congress Offers Antimissile Price Tag The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the full cost of building a national missile defense system would be nearly $60 billion.

Experts, including some from the antimissile industry itself, said the plan would never work.

Among other things, he has supported development of an antimissile defense system.

Even if you had some kind of an antimissile device.

The previous major antimissile test, in September, was a success.

The antimissile coalition may have lost the battle in 1983.

The administration promised to develop the technology for an antimissile system within three years.

Unfortunately, no antimissile system will ever be 100 percent reliable.

He gave some broader reasons for China's fear of the antimissile plan.

Neither of us wanted to depend on antimissile defense systems against one.

"If we have to, we'll make our own antimissile system."

I came to tell you that the Americans have a secret, experimental antimissile defense system.

The Russian military is strongly opposed to the antimissile program.

He knew the Race was desperately low on antimissile missiles.

But it makes no sense to build an antimissile system before the technology has been perfected.

He said manipulation of antimissile flight tests was nothing new.

But developing and testing limited antimissile systems is an American goal.

The kicker is that the dream of an antimissile defense system still has life today.

To be sure, there is a case to be made for the antimissile system.

Administration officials say that antimissile tests will conflict with the treaty within the next six months or so.

But the quest for exotic antimissile arms can take many forms.

"And then one of their antimissile lasers would do the same to us," Dan said.

American and Russian experts plan to meet to discuss antimissile technology in more detail.

The pressure also comes from the Clinton administration's schedule for deploying an antimissile system.

"We have the capability to surpass any antimissile system," he said.

But the director of the antimissile effort said yesterday that his agency had not adopted this view.