Against Missile Defense


Unproven missile defense system stirs fears of renewed arms race -- David Ballingrud  -- St. Petersburg Times  -- April 11, 2004
Missile Defense

U.S. development of missile defense systems is forcing the nuclear arms race into a new phase as China and Russia modernize their arsenals in response.

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In Defense of Earth: Keeping Asteroids at a Distance -- Leonard David  -- Space.com  -- February 5, 2003
Asteroid Defense

A non-governmental group of astronauts, scientists, and technologists have started an organization with the goal of significantly altering the orbit of an asteroid "in a controlled manner" by the year 2015.

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Star Wars Spending Spree -- Fred Kaplan  -- Slate  -- November 7, 2002
Missile Defense

Fred Kaplan criticizes the Bush administration's over-emphasis on missile defense at the expense of research into the technologies necessary to detect the next terrorist attack.

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ABM Treaty Demise to Affect China, India and Pakistan -- Bryan Bender  -- Global Security Newswire  -- July 12, 2002
Missile Defense

The U.S. termination of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia could have dramatic repercussions for the security situation in South Asia, according to regional experts. The balance of power between China, India and Pakistan may be increasingly difficult to stabilize as the three countries adapt their nuclear and missile development plans to a new global security environment according to a new report from the Henry L. Stimson Center.

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Star wars could make space unusable -- Jeff Hecht  -- New Scientist  -- April 19, 2002
Space Expansion

Space-based missile defences could result in swarms of dangerous debris that make low-Earth orbits permanently unusable, a prominent US astronomer has warned.

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Why Missile Defense Won't Work -- Theodore A. Postol  -- Technology Review  -- April 1, 2002
Missile Defense

An MIT expert on national security technology tells us why the current missile defense project won't ever be able to do its job?and offers a better alternative.

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Top Lawmaker Urges Russia on Weapons -- Vladimir Isachenkov  -- Washington Post  -- March 18, 2002
Russia

A senior Russian lawmaker called for Russia to upgrade its nuclear weapons capability in response to the U.S. missile defense program, despite a recent improvement in ties.

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MIT team tied to questionable missile studies -- David Abel  -- Boston Globe  -- March 4, 2002
Missile Defense

A Pentagon agency, two major military contractors, and an independent research team led by MIT scientists produced flawed studies that exaggerated the success of a key test used to justify spending billions of dollars on the fledgling national missile defense program, according to two reports obtained by the Boston Globe.

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Can Missile Defense Work? -- Steven Weinberg  -- New York Review of Books  -- February 14, 2002
Missile Defense

Physicist Steven Weinberg reviews the history of missile defense and argues that little has changed in the debate over the last 50 years. He concludes that "seeking to deploy a national missile defense aimed at an implausible threat, a defense that would have dubious effectiveness against even that threat, and that on balance would harm our security more than it helps it, the Bush administration seems to be pursuing a pure rather than applied missile defense—a missile defense that is undertaken for its own sake, rather than for any application it may have in defending our country."

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The missile defense shield will help neutralize the tech sector -- Hal Plotkin  -- San Francisco Gate  -- January 17, 2002
Missile Defense

The author argues that the scale and budget of the U.S. missile defense plan will greatly reduce the independence and political neutrality of the Silicon Valley technology sector.

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