re: #54 Obdicut

Generally, Kaplan is on target, but he did get some of his facts wrong too. Romney is right to claim that the treaty doesn’t reflect rail-based launchers. Kaplan argues that neither side has those systems, but if we’re talking about a treaty regime that deals with real and potential deployments, rail-based systems should have been included - particularly since the US had previously considered just that when the MX system was first proposed. It was judged to be costly at the time and the MX was fielded in silos as the earlier systems were. It’s an oversight that should be fixed, but not fatal to the treaty.