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Secretary of Defense Hagel's March 15 announcement on missile defense included a restructuring of U.S. missile defense plans for Europe. Steven Pifer says this could open the way to resolve U.S.-Russian differences over missile defense and remove an obstacle to further nuclear arms reductions--if Moscow can say something other than "nyet."

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Steven Pifer

Director, Arms Control Initiative

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

"These [ground-based missile] interceptors in Alaska and California are believed to have some capability against a rudimentary intercontinental ballistic missile warhead of the kind that you would expect North Korea to have initially. But how good they would actually be, we don’t know. But there is some capability to protect America already deployed."

Source: Voice of America

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