Reply #1: I would expect that their weapons systems can be programmed for hundreds of targets

[Kolesar]

And the missile control officers would just pick one of the files/tapes/cartridges that they have been ordered to download before launch.

Note that the Russians are talking about targeting the anti-missile sites in Eastern Europe. They would be stupid not to have targeting capability for those sites.

The republicans withdrawing from the antiballistic missile treaty in 2002 was uncalled for. It made relations worse with the rest of the world. ABM systems are destabilizing in the respect that give our opposition all the more motivation for a massive launch of missiles instead of just firing one missile at a time.