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hope for a better relationship with russia and any future sanctions or other attempt to counter the iridium missile threat, to what extent that was a factor in making this change? >> john cartwright sat in on the same meetings i sat in on with the president. the decisions on this were driven, i would say, almost exclusively by the change in intelligence assessment and the enhanced technology. it was a zero-based look at the threat and their capability of dealing with it. that said, the russians are probably not going to be pleased that we are continuing with the missile defense efforts in europe. at the same time, there are two changes in this architecture that should ally some of their unfounded concerns. one is there concern that the radar that was going into the czech republic looked deep into russia and could monitor the launches of their icbm's as well. the second is the russians believe, despite our best efforts to dissuade them, that ground-based interceptors in poland could be fitted with nuclear weapons and become an offensive weapon like the persian missile. it would be a weapon w