Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) has attached an amendment to a Senate defense spending bill that requires the Pentagon to use countermeasures, including decoys, in any future tests of the National Missile Defense system. Durbin's amendment was attached to the Senate's fiscal year 2001 defense authorization bill last Friday (June 30). The NMD program has come under attack from some critics outside the Defense Department -- most notably MIT professor Theodore Postol -- for not realistically replicating the threat posed by...
