According to a survey by the Opinion Research Corporation, 87 percent of Americans believes the U.S. should have a missile defense system. Fifty-seven percent prefer missile defense over pre-emptive or diplomatic military actions when dealing with missiles carrying weapons of mass destruction.

Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, said the “American Public support for missile defense is at the highest level ever recorded, and has shown the continual increase in the public’s awareness of the threat and their support for the United States to have missile defense to defend them from that threat since 2002, when the President and Congress made the decision to deploy missile defenses for our country.”

For more information, visit the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance’s web site.