As was explained by Mr. Bon last week, the national missile defense system is going to be implemented, if the decision is made to do so, in a series of steps, beginning with the capability to defend against a few missiles, a few inbound targets, as few as five, but evolving the capability to defend against as many as twenty.
Comme M. Bon l'a expliqué la semaine dernière, le système de défense nationale antimissiles va être déployé, si la décision en est prise, progressivement, en commençant avec la capacité de se défendre contre un petit nombre de missiles, jusqu'à cinq, ce chiffre devant atteindre ultérieurement 20.