President Bill Clinton has vetoed a mission to target a near-Earth asteroid with a missile (This Week, 23 March 1996, p 12). Congress had added $30 million to the Pentagon’s budget for the coming year to finance the Clementine 2 mission. But Clinton’s aides say that it might clash with international arms-control treaties.
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