First of all thwere is failsafe measures that the country firing the offensive missle can use in the case of an "accident"...

So that argument is off the table...

The second argument, however, of a terrorist launching an offensive missile is, while farfetched, somewhat valid... But in ordeer for that to happen the terrorist would have to have gone thru a massive checklist of preocedures in order to pull it off... I'm not too sure what the chances are of a terrorist being able to penitrate the US or Russia but it is so small that it's perhaps not even worth discussion...

Now that brings up folks like Pakistan... or India... or Isreal that we are realistically talking about here...

Agreed???

The problem is that if one is making a case for a US ABM system on Russia's doorstep based on the threat to the US by Pakistan one needs to rememeber that Pakistan does not have the felivery capabilities to hit the US... Not does India... Isreal??? Maybe...

So, the discussion comes down to the logis in placing a US ABM system on Russia's doorstep to protect the US from Isreal???

If that is your argument, bb, and I'm not saying it is... But when one takes the window dressing off what you have said, I can't think of any other scenerio out there in the real world that would justify the US thinking that a ABM sysytem on Russia's doorstep would be of any value at all but...

...quite the contrary...

B~