Ballistic Missile Defense has never worked and most experts say it never will. It destabilizes the nuclear arms situation and encourages those who already have missiles to acquire a very large number ot defeat the system. And a real nuclear attack would almost certainly use a small "suitcase" device that's not traceable back to any nation-state. Researching small nuclear bombs is also madness as the long term result of this is almost certainly that one goes off in an American or NATO city - open societies being vastly more vulnerable to infiltration than dictatorships. And continued research into offensive bio-weapons, whether masked as "defensive" or not, is far better put into the public health system that would deal with any large-scale epidemic, attack or not.

Land mines also need to be banned and so do all other weapons that primarily target civilians. Civil law should allow vendors of these to be sued by any civilian harmed by them after the war is over.