BY CONTINUING to plunge ahead with deployment of a missile defense system that has not been proven to work and might never work, President Bush is doing the opposite of what he should be doing.
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Instead of directing finite resources toward protecting the nation against likely threats, he is lavishing billions of dollars on a system that has not been tested under the realistic conditions that would obtain in the unlikely event America came under attack from ballistic missiles launched by North Korea. Instead of funding research that might one day make possible an effective defense against ballistic missiles, Bush is spending $10.2 billion this year -- the single biggest item in the defense budget -- on a system whose flaws independent scientists regard as insurmountable.

A recent report by senior scientists of the Union of Concerned Scientists concluded: "The ballistic missile defense system that the United States will deploy later this year will have no demonstrated defensive capability and will be ineffective against a real attack by long-range ballistic missiles."