The U.S. withdrew from the

The U.S. withdrew from the ABM treaty and CIA reported that China began plans to increase it's nuclear arsenal to compensate for our possible ABM systems. Now we get an op-ed by G. Michael Green, a senior planner for NASA, about how China is ramping up it's space program and will likely have achieved manned space fight by the end of 2002 or 2003. Of course, the technologies used to guide a rocket through orbit and back to earth are many of the same ones used in guiding an ICBM to its target. So I think we can expect not only more ICBMs aimed at America over the next decade or two, but probably more accurate ones as well. Isn't that just a cheery thought?