By George Rathjens and Carl Kaysen, A year ago President Bush announced that he was ordering the deployment of an anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) system, with the first sites to be operational in 2004 in Alaska and California. In 1967 President Johnson made a strikingly similar decision. Both smacked of election-year domestic politics. President Johnson had reason […]
Bush’s Missile Defense System: Does it Pass Muster?
President Bush has announced plans to begin deployment of a strategic missile defense by September 30, 2004. The initial deployment will include six silos at Fort Greely, Alaska, and four at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California; each silo will contain one interceptor missile. More are to follow in succeeding years. Site preparation has already […]
Defense radar to be assembled in Corpus Christi
This week: News updates and a new report Defense radar to be assembled in Corpus Christi Missile Defense Agency Will Choose Kinetic Interceptor This Year Report of the Defense Science Board/Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Joint Task Force on Acquisition of National Security Space Programs 1. Defense radar to be assembled in Corpus Christi 25-story […]
Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: 15 Recommendations
On September 24, 2002, Matthew Bunn, Harvard scholar and a Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation board member, testified before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and Veteran’s Affairs. His testimony addressed the topic of nuclear terrorism and laid out a series of recommendations for Congress on steps to prevent nuclear or radiological […]
