Sidney D. Drell, Philip J. Parley,
'Star Wars' and David Holloway, in International Se-
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28 Carleton St., Cambridge, Mass. 02142.
In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty sharply limiting their defenses against nuclear missiles. Both sides judged such defenses "to be futile, destabilizing, and costly," recall Stanford researchers Drell, Farley, and Holloway.
That logic still holds, they...