Byron Dorgan: “The Air Force has proposed a system that they say is a minimal cost system to respond to exactly what you are talking…”

“The Air Force has proposed a system that they say is a minimal cost system to respond to exactly what you are talking about: one isolated case of one intercontinental ballistic missile, perhaps with one warhead, being launched accidentally or deliberately at someplace in this country. There is a plan floating around that they say will cost $2 billion, $2.5 billion to defend against that, not to give us a defense that is not impenetrable, but one that gives a reasonable certainty of stopping that limited threat. I ask the Senator, is that what the Senator would support and would that be sufficient?”