1.   American and Russian experts plan to meet to discuss antimissile technology in more detail.

2.   The next president should avoid reliance on expensive and unworkable antimissile technologies and not take steps that would lead Russia to rearm.

3.   The test was seen as a key demonstration of the feasibility of the antimissile technology, which is being developed by Raytheon under contract to Boeing Co.

4.   This includes a variety of upgraded missiles and radars but rightly omits the four destroyers with advanced Aegis antimissile technology that had been requested by Taiwan.