by John Isaacs Watch John Isaacs discuss the shortfalls of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) anti-ballistic missile system in an interview with WAFF-TV, a Huntsville, Alabama station. Huntsville is home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command. Of the GMD, Isaacs says, “Despite many many billions of […]
The Economist Story on Missile Defense Quotes Kingston Reif and Phil Coyle
The Unsheltering Sky As test flights go, FTG-06b was a dazzling affair. The mission was part of a programme called Ground-based Midcourse Defence (GMD), which is supposed to provide America’s main shield against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with a range beyond 5,500km (3,418 miles). FTG-06b involved the launch (pictured opposite) on June 22nd from Vandenberg […]
Military intervention can’t solve the political issues in Iraq
by Angela Canterbury In his Aug. 12 op-ed column, “The left’s slippery slope,” Richard Cohen attacked the Council for a Livable World and our research organization, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, as “isolationist and selfish.” Our opposition to U.S. military escalation in Iraq is rooted in protecting human life. Our hearts go out to […]
National Defense Magazine Publishes Story on Missile Defense by Lt. Gen. Robert Gard
National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short by Lt. General Robert Gard The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944, prompted initially by German V-2 ballistic missile attacks in Europe during World War II. The most recent initiative is the ground-based midcourse defense system, referred to as […]
The National Interest Publishes an Op-ed on Missile Defense by Lt. General Robert Gard and Phil Coyle
America’s Massive Missile Defense Mistake by Lt. General Robert Gard and Phil Coyle On June 22, the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system successfully intercepted and destroyed a target missile in a test over the Pacific Ocean. The Obama administration has said that a successful test would trigger the addition of fourteen more long-range missile defense […]