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	National Missile Defence (NMD)
		The American program to devise and deploy a missile defence system known as National Missile Defence (NMD) is strongly and widely opposed for various good reasons, including fears that it would lead to revival of the nuclear arms race.
		Instead of opposing NMD without a fair hearing, people should be looking at how missile defences might further the nuclear abolition objectives of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
		Indeed, it is possible that a defence against the limited attack capability of so-called "rogue" states or accidental launches by nuclear weapons states could eliminate the triggering event that might otherwise ignite the nuclear holocaust of mutual assured destruction.
	www.pugwash.org /reports/pim/pim42.htm

	The Dominion: Reading: National Missile Defence
		You have to look at it in the context of the substantial reduction in export controls on missile technology; and you have to look at it in the so-called pre-emptive strike capacity, coming out of national security defence, which was clearly expressed as part of the rationale for the invasion of Iraq.
		Therefore, when one looks at missile defence, you have to put it in the same context as the recent decisions to seriously consider the resumption of nuclear testing and the development of mini nuclear devices.
		Alexa McDonnough, during a meeting of the Parliament Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs.
	dominionpaper.ca /reading/2003/reading_national_missile_defence.html

	Party responses to National Missile Defence
		National Missile Defence is not "Star Wars" nor would it upset the strategic balance between the United States and Russia.
		The proposal as currently presented would provide for limited defence against rogue states armed with ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction as well as accidental launches.
		The Canadian Alliance believes that Canada should support placing a limited missile defence system developed by the United States under the command and control of NORAD.
	www.acp-cpa.ca /Q2resp.htm

	2006 Canadian Census and National Missile Defence
		Missile defence is most certainly not about defending American interests from rogue missiles, it’s all about American control of world events in the 21st century.
		Missile defence IS the weaponization of space, which Canadians have said time and again, is not in our or the worlds’ best interest.
		Essentially these two issues, the 2006 census and missile defence, can be said to be a litmus test of where Canada is going to find itself in the near future.
	www.canadiancontent.net /commtr/article_712.html

	Take action to oppose missile defence!
		The Canadian Peace Alliance urges the Government of Canada to declare its objection to the US National Missile Defence program (regardless of whether or not it is asked to participate) and to oppose the weaponisation of space in any form.
		Missile Defence (MD) is a unilateral initiative of the United States that no other major country supports.
		Missile defence will not protect North America from missile attack and it may provoke a new nuclear arms race.
	www.acp-cpa.ca /NMDactions.htm

	Online NewsHour -- National Missile Defense
		A report on the political and diplomatic hurdles the national missile defense faces as a decision on its deployment nears.
		In the first of a two-part series, Jeffrey Kaye examines the the question of whether to build a national missile defense system.
		A detailed look at the Cold War treaty that bars a national missile defense system.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/nmd_splash.html

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - National Missile Defence: Developing Disaster
		The renewed impetus for NMD began with the release of the November 1995 National Intelligence Estimate Emerging Missile Threats to North America During the Next 15 Years.
		United States NMD plans call for an initial deployment by 2005 to protect all 50 states against limited attacks from long-range ballistic missiles.
		Though the "rogue" nations have had ballistic missile programmes for several years, none of them has developed a reliable long-range missile that can strike the United States.
	www.acronym.org.uk /44nmd.htm

	National Missile Defence - Jeff Schubert
		The US NMD proposal at this stage appears to be for the deployment of several hundred missiles that would be able to shoot down missiles on their way to attacking the US.
		He writes “the criticism that missile defense systems could spark arms races is an argument for good institutional arrangements for the deployment and use of this technology, not an argument for attempting to suppress it”.
		The NMD is essentially a ground based limited version of the Ronald Reagan era “Star Wars” concept which was supposed to be able to handle a deliberate Soviet first strike in which thousands of warheads were launched against the US.
	www.aiia.asn.au /news/schubert.html

	Strategic Affairs - Technology
		National Missile Defense (NMD) is the focus of the US response to these threats.
		The current NMD program of the Department of Defense is developing and planning to deploy, if directed, a ground-based missile defense system designed to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats from states of concern.
		Its mission is to strike high-speed ballistic missile warheads in the midcourse or exo-atmospheric phase of their trajectories and destroy them by force of impact.
	www.stratmag.com /issueMay-15/page03.htm

	National Missile Defence
		- responsible for managing, directing, and executing a ballistic missile defense system.
	www.geocities.com /a_star_thing/missiledefense.html

	Global Network - Why National Missile Defence Won't Work
		Advocates of national missile defenses argue that this combination of missile threats and improved technology makes possible the deployment of an effective "homeland" missile shield, and their efforts to bring this about are bearing fruit.
		Data on the missile's path from satellites and early-warning radars would be used to cue the primary sensor of the national defense system, the ground-based radar; enabling it to increase its detection range by concentrating its search for the missile on a smaller area.
		This finding gave a significant boost to national missile defense proponents and was a factor in the administration's decision to add billions of dollars to the Pentagon's budget for the first phases of deployment.
	www.space4peace.org /articles/nmd.htm

	Guardian Unlimited Today's issues Son of Star Wars
		American plans for a national missile defence system (NMD) have been strongly criticised by British MPs worried about the impact on international relations and the risk that it will fuel an arms race.
		The Patriot missile, the only missile defence system ever used in combat, had a perfect test.
		Once an enemy missile is detected by early-warning radars, the information is fed into a war room.
	www.guardian.co.uk /theissues/article/0,6512,180980,00.html

	US National Missile Defence
		National Missile Defence is a bad idea which will do far more harm than good.
		A successful National Missile Defence deployment would cause the collapse of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Defence Treaty and threaten the whole idea of mutual deterrence, on which nuclear arms control currently rests.
		For many American proponents of National Missile Defence, the real objective is not the diminishing threat of North Korean weapons.
	www.keating.org.au /cfm/details_news.cfm?ID=22

	European Defence - NMD - A Threat to European Security?
		The Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) project is an ambitious attempt by the United States to develop a system to counter the possible launch of ballistic missiles by rogue states.
		Similar to the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars" proposal of the early 1980s, NMD is being developed to protect the US from limited attack from long-range ballistic missiles.
		Some analysts have also suggested that NMD should concentrate on hitting ballistic missiles at the launch stage rather than the presently proposed advanced stages when the warhead would be in the low or high atmosphere.
	www.european-defence.co.uk /article10.html

	Canada and missile defence
		Defence of the homeland is only indirectly the point of missile defence because Washington knows that reliable protection of national territory from missile attack is simply not possible.
		Strategic missile defence, in the American mind and plan, is inseparable from weaponization of space – one more reason for an unequivocal rejection of BMD by Canada.
		In addition to rejecting participation in Washington's deployment of strategic ballistic missile defence, Canada should now be working with like-minded states to define clear arms control measures to mitigate BMD's negative strategic consequences and to halt the drift towards space combat.
	www.ploughshares.ca /CONTENT/ABOLISH%20NUCS/BMD%20Page/BMD.update.htm

	India embraces Bush and national missile defence project
		The Bush administration's campaign to win international support for its plan for a national missile defence (NMD) program has produced at least one highly significant shift in strategic relations.
		By backing the US adventure on the ballistic missile defence system, New Delhi is ensuring the opposite, since the first reaction of China will be to expand its arsenal and its second will be to set up a system of its own...
		US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice phoned Singh in early May to inform him that New Delhi would be on the itinerary of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who was being dispatched to brief “friends and allies” in the region including Japan, South Korea and Australia about the NMD plans.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/ind-m16.shtml

	NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENCE AND THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR POLICY
		Missile defence is essentially an information problem, and we now have the requisite technologies available; as our ability to integrate them improves, I think we are ready to cross an important threshold in our ability to knock down ballistic missiles.
		Long-range ballistic missiles, as well as short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, with weapons of mass destruction, are likely to be a weapon of choice for any state with a reason to be concerned about intervention by the United States and its allies.
		In addition to work on ballistic missiles, the Commission noted that the emerging powers “have the option to arm [their long- and short-range systems] with biological and chemical weapons” and “the knowledge needed to design and build a nuclear weapon is now widespread”.
	www.iss-eu.org /occasion/occ18.html

	China’s Concern over National Missile Defence, by Dingli Shen, June 2000
		On the one hand, the US has made it a national policy to develop a limited ballistic missile defence program, with a key decision to be made this year regarding whether to deploy the system.
		It is often argued that missile defence would, if unchecked, tilt the balance of power and therefore affect the international political and security order.
		In this context, it is not impossible to understand the need for a limited missile defence, especially for a global power as the United States, which has vast overseas presence and interests, often in turn a reason to invite attack.
	www.wagingpeace.org /articles/2000/06/00_shen_chinas-concern.htm

	National Missile Defense
		National Missile Defence: The Role of RAF Fylingdales and Menwith Hill
		National Missile Defence and the Future of Nuclear Policy / La National Missile Defence et l'avenir de la politique nucléaire Paris, France: The Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union
		A press briefing on the technical and security implications of the first NMD intercept tests.
	www.ucsusa.org /global_security/missile_defense/page.cfm?pageID=570

	Bulletin 22 - Limiting National Missile Defence
		Boost-phase missile defence systems need to be close to their rogue states targets and therefore do not have the capacity to neutralise the Russian and Chinese land-based missiles.
		Advocates of NMD claim that Russia and China should not worry about NMD as it is only meant to protect the US from ballistic missile attacks from rogue states.
		THAAD is a mobile, land-based US Army system meant to destroy medium-range missiles in their terminal phase at a height of between 40-150 km, using hit-to-kill interceptors with a maximum speed of 2.6 km/s.
	www.inesap.org /bulletin22/bul22art31.htm

	British American Security Information Council
		Missile Defence Update, US developments, Russia upgrades its missile defence system, and missile developments from around the world, 9 June 2005.
		The Missile Defence Debate Gap in Britain: As Wide As Ever in 2004, by Leyla Kattan and Nigel Chamberlain, BASIC Notes, 24 February 2005.
		NATO Defence Ministers Meeting 9 June, Call for NATO to withdraw all tactical nukes from Europe, BASIC Media Advisory, 7 June 2005.
	www.basicint.org

	CDI - Center for Defense Information - Security Policy Research Organization
		However, North Koreaâs missile program is very active, and various intelligence agencies believe that it has potentially reprocessed rods that could in theory give it fissile material.
		In her Op-Ed in the Providence Journal, CDI Research Analyst Victoria Samson argues that the real threat of a missile attack against the United States comes not from a ballistic missile, but from shoulder-launched missilesâ menacing commercial aircraft.
		CDI Senior Advisor Lawrence Korb argues that because the base realignment and closure process was created to take the politics out of the process, lobbying efforts to save military bases are a waste of time and money.
	www.cdi.org

	Britain's national missile defence system
		The same arguments that are being levelled against the Bush administration's proposed missile defence system could just as easily have been levelled against Britain's expenditure on radar development and installations.
		Britain's radar defence system was the Star Wars project of its time.
		Sixty-five years ago Joseph Goebbels hatched a devilish scheme to destroy Britain’s radar defences without firing a shot.
	www.newaus.com.au /030506nmd.html

	uGoto.com: National Missile Defense
		If only national defense was this easy and fun!
		George has an umbrella to keep the bombs at bay.
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	www.ugoto.com /games/go/nationalmissiledefense

	Canada and United States Amend NORAD Agreement
		Established in 1958, NORAD is a binational organization responsible for the aerospace defence of North America.
		OTTAWA— Minister of National Defence Bill Graham and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew today announced that the Government is amending the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) agreement with the United States.
		An amendment to the NORAD agreement will preserve the institution's existing missile warning function after the U.S. missile defence system is deployed this fall.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/library/news/2004/space-040805-dnd01.htm (334 words)

	Canadian Democratic Movement :: Putting Canadians First
		Minister of National Defence William Graham Explains Liberal Position on Missile Defence
		During the height of the missile defence debate, I wrote Prime Minister Paul Martin regarding Canada's position in the proposed system.
		The move to not join completely in the missile defence program was one that was well received by the general public.
	www.canadiandemocraticmovement.ca /displayarticle684.html (1378 words)

	Notional Missile Defence
		The "National Missile Defense" is a scheme to prevent "rogue states" hitting the United States with intercontinental missiles, by shooting them down in mid-flight from North Korea or Libya or wherever.
		On 20 January George "Dubya" Bush became President of the USA, and the "National Missile Defense" - Son of Star Wars - was firmly on the political agenda.
		The Notional Missile Defence initiative is here to help you, George.
	www.poptel.org.uk /nuj/nmd (1378 words)

	WHAT
		After initial training at the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla (near Pune), he won the Telescope for being the Best All Round Cadet on the Cadets Training Ship.
		He is also an alumnus of the National Defence College, New Delhi.
		He is an alumnus of Defence Services Staff College and National
	www.indiadefence.com /newchiefs.htm (712 words)

	Canada and United States Amend NORAD Agreement
		OTTAWA — Minister of National Defence Bill Graham and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew today announced that the Government is amending the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) agreement with the United States.
		Established in 1958, NORAD is a binational organization responsible for the aerospace defence of North America.
		"This amendment safeguards and sustains NORAD regardless of what decision the Government of Canada eventually takes on ballistic missile defence." He added that Canada's decision on missile defence will be taken when bilateral negotiations with the U.S. are completed, and with the input of Parliament.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/library/news/2004/space-040805-dnd01.htm (334 words)

	National Missile Defense and Arctic Canada
		Missile Defense Defence and Canada's Vital Security Interests
		Majority [of Canadians] Oppose U.S. Missile Defence Shield
		But that they not move unilaterally to abrogate or violate ABM." (25 June 2001, Reuters, "Canada Wants More Details on U.S. Missile Plan)
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /SEEJ/NMD/canada/index_canada.htm (334 words)

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