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标题：A Tale of Missiles And men
其他标题：Arms Control and disarmament to arms decontrol and rearmament
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作者：Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
期刊名称：Defence Journal
印刷版ISSN：0257-2141
出版年度：2018
卷号：11
页码：1-3
语种：English
出版社：Defence Housing Society
摘要：Only a few would be persuaded that President Donald Trump is deeply informed about any moderately complex subject. Ballistic missiles is one such. In fact, such a notion becomes firm when one con- siders his expression of bewilderment when Japan did not shoot down the North Korean “Hwasong-15” missile in flight just as the Saudis had done the Houthi projectile fired from Yemen. Anyone with even meagre understanding of missile technology would know that the two situations were not the same. And that the former action would have been well-nigh impossible with available Japanese capability. So when he caught out the Russians cheating on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty of 1987, he took many by surprise. The Russians might have indeed tried to pull wool over American eyes by quietly deploying a new medium range weapon in violation of that landmark agreement. This is not to say that Mr. Trump came to this conclusion on his own. At least it was apparent that he heeded counsel in this regard, which in itself is a silver lining of no mean consequence..