Poster
05-12-2004, 10:36 AM
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency is running into a few problems while trying to complete the “layered” missile defense program that is to be finished by September. In April, the GAO recommended significant improvements in testing and accountability procedures by the Missile Defense Agency. Another report issued last year by the American Physical Society’s 12-member Study Group on Boost-Phase Intercept Systems for National Missile Defense, also called for more research.
“The goal of the boost-phase program is "to disable missiles by hitting them with interceptor rockets or a laser beam in their first few minutes of flight, while the booster rockets are burning and before they have released their warheads." This approach is viewed by proponents of the Bush administration’s Ballistic Missile Defense System as one element of its proposed layered defense system, in which enemy warheads – with nuclear, chemical or biological payloads – might be destroyed in any or all phases of flight.”
“While deployment of an effective national missile defense system may not be out of the question someday, Lamb said the United States should not begin such a deployment until it’s clear that the following requirements have been met: "One, we know that it will be effective; two, it won’t bankrupt the U.S.; and three, it won’t cause other countries to respond in ways that would make us even less safe."
For more information see: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040511040830.htm
“The goal of the boost-phase program is "to disable missiles by hitting them with interceptor rockets or a laser beam in their first few minutes of flight, while the booster rockets are burning and before they have released their warheads." This approach is viewed by proponents of the Bush administration’s Ballistic Missile Defense System as one element of its proposed layered defense system, in which enemy warheads – with nuclear, chemical or biological payloads – might be destroyed in any or all phases of flight.”
“While deployment of an effective national missile defense system may not be out of the question someday, Lamb said the United States should not begin such a deployment until it’s clear that the following requirements have been met: "One, we know that it will be effective; two, it won’t bankrupt the U.S.; and three, it won’t cause other countries to respond in ways that would make us even less safe."
For more information see: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040511040830.htm