COVER STORY Old foe, new band: Show-and-tell time for Pentagon's GMD missile shield

摘要

Rudimentary: That's the label the U.S. Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system has struggled to shake since 2002, when President Bush ordered the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to field the dollar80 billion conglomeration of targeting software, anti-missile rockets and kill vehicles as soon as possible.