Pentagon disputes CBO's $60 billion NMD cost estimate

A Congressional Budget Office estimate that the proposed National Missile Defense (NMD) would cost almost $60 billion through 2015 was reached by "a comparison of apples to golden apples," the chief Defense Dept. spokesman charged yesterday. "The CBO reports details more of a robust system than we...

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