{"id":192893,"date":"2009-02-08T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/08\/some-sanity-in-missile-defense\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T19:38:00","slug":"some-sanity-in-missile-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/08\/some-sanity-in-missile-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Sanity in Missile Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-02-02&amp;section=Washington+Outlook&amp;headline=Inside+information+from+the+U.S.+capital\">one paragraph blurb<\/a> (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>), but it appears that Robert Gates is moving toward more cooperation with Russia on missile defense, &#8220;In his first appearance before Congress as a member of President Barack Obama\u2019s cabinet, he says mutual missile defense projects with Moscow are not as far-fetched as recent events would suggest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When this is juxtaposed with the fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3933046&amp;c=EUR&amp;s=TOP\">Czech parliament has placed an indefinite delay on a on a vote approving the missile defense radar<\/a>, it would appear that using BMD to poke Russia in the with a stick is no longer the order of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only a one paragraph blurb (paid subscription required), but it appears that Robert Gates is moving toward more cooperation with Russia on missile defense, &#8220;In his first appearance before Congress as a member of President Barack Obama\u2019s cabinet, he says mutual missile defense projects with Moscow are not as far-fetched as recent events would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-missile-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}