Missile Pact Based On Old Plan -- Washington Post
President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last week agreed to a joint missile-launch monitoring facility, but their new agreement is based on an old plan.
The original proposal dates to President Bill Clinton, who first discussed it with Russian leader Boris Yeltsin and later settled on a plan with Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin.
The new proposal is more ambitious, though. Originally conceived a decade ago as a facility that would monitor launches by the United States and Russia and any missiles aimed at the two countries by others nations, the new facility would attempt to monitor missile launches around the globe.
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My Comment: If this program can bring down any possibility of a misreading of a missile launch and/or misunderstanding .... I am all for it.
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