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November 1, 2004

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Holes in the Missile Shield

The national missile defense now being deployed by the U.S. should be replaced with a more effective system

By Richard L. Garwin

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Rights & Permissions

Anti-Ballistic-Missile Systems. Richard L. Garwin and Hans A. Bethe in Scientific American, Vol. 218, No. 3, pages 21-31; March 1968.

Countermeasures: A Technical Evaluation of the Operational Effectiveness of the Planned U.S. National Missile Defense System. A. M. Sessler et al. Union of Concerned Scientists and MIT, April 2000. Available at www.ucsusa.org/publications/report.cfm?publicationID=132

Report of the APS Study Group on Boost-Phase Intercept Systems for National Missile Defense. D. Kleppner et al. in Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 76, No. 3, pages S1-S424; July 2004. Available at www.aps.org/public_affairs/popa/reports/nmd03.cfm

Technical Realities: An Analysis of the 2004 Deployment of a U.S. National Missile Defense System. L. Gronlund, D. C. Wright, G. N. Lewis and P. E. Coyle III. Union of Concerned Scientists, May 2004. Available at www.ucsusa.org/global_security/missile_defense/page.cfm?pageID=1403

Boost-Phase Intercept

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