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	National Missile Defense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		National Missile Defense (NMD) is a military strategy and associated systems to shield an entire country against incoming Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs).
		National Missile Defense System - A short critique of the NMD scheme by Noam Chomsky (published in the American Prospect).
		In 2003, NMD was changed to Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), to differentiate it from other missile defense programs, such as space-based, sea-based, and defense targeting the boost phase and the reentry phase (see flight phases).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Missile_Defense (2686 words)

	National Missile Defense
		Despite the fact that national missile defense has always been a major technical challenge, the current Bush II Administration is strongly pushing the concept, with plans to deploy a limited NMD screen in the near future.
		At the beginning of 2002, BMDO was renamed the "Missile Defense Agency (MDA)" to further emphasize the stature of NMD in the eyes of the Bush Administration, and at the end of the year the administration gave the go-ahead for operational development and deployment.
		He stated that the ABM Treaty was a "relic" that blocked timely missile defense testing and deployment, which was judged "indispensable" as a defense against terrorists and rogue states.
	www.darkmattermag.com /april2004/dark_tech.htm (1512 words)

	National Missile Defense - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about National Missile Defense
		NMD initially received a quarter of the BMDO's annual funding – US$3 billion over five years – the remainder going chiefly to Theater Missile Defense (TMD), based around the army's Patriot and navy's Aegis missile systems.
		The NMD initiative is overseen by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), set up in 1993.
		NMD is a much reduced version of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /National%20Missile%20Defense (531 words)

	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.
		A discussion of President Clinton's decision not to authorize the construction of a national missile defense system.
		Missile defense is among the topics President Bush discusses with European leaders.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/nmd_splash.html (388 words)

	NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE
		In January 1999, Secretary of Defense William Cohen announced that a decision to deploy a National Missile Defense would be considered in summer of the year 2000, based on the existence of the threat and the technological readiness of an NMD system to counter it.
		I make this judgment on the basis of a substantial knowledge of the NMD system as it is proposed, of previous efforts to develop a system of missile defense of the nation (and of Theater Missile Defense), and of a close look over the decades at countermeasures that are feasible to defeat missile defenses.
		Nevertheless, the problem with the NMD system is not simply that it could not fulfill its stated requirement, but that it would have essentially no capability against a long-range missile system deployed by North Korea, Iraq, or Iran to strike the United States with biological weapons or with nuclear weapons.
	www.fas.org /rlg/990504-nmd.htm (2509 words)

	Shield of Dreams: Why National Missile Defense Won't Work
		The strenuous objections to national missile defense by both our friends and potential enemies, which may delay the programs, and severe technical problems, leave time for genuine debate of a strategic system which, if deployed, will leave this country and the world considerably less secure than it was before.
		National missile defense was first proposed to counter a possible massive nuclear strike by the Soviet Union.
		Consideration of national missile defense requires that it be seen as one, not the only means, of dealing with any apparent missile threat, and that its cost be considered competitive with other options.
	www.ciponline.org /dfd/shield.htm (6523 words)

	National Missile Defense - Politics
		NMD has faced criticism from Europe (11), who fear that the system will break the common US/Europe defense system that has been in place for the past fifty years if the US commits to only a National, and not an International, Missile Defense (12).
		Missile defense remains a contentious issue, with advocates and detractors so passionate in their convictions that NMD sometimes resembles a theological, rather than a public policy, issue.
		One of the reasons ballistic missiles are so attractive to so many countries is that there are currently no defenses against them....History teaches us that weakness is provocative and, in a real sense, the absence of missile defense provokes others into seeking such weapons.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/02/shakin/nmd/politics.html (1984 words)

	Global Beat: National Missile Defense Policy
		Active defense can play a role, but a national missile defense is only a part of the effort to protect ourselves from these and other ballistic missile threats.
		This is because defenses render less credible any possible attempts by a rogue state adversary to use ballistic missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction to coerce the United States into holding back from supporting a friend or ally that the rogue state threatens with attack.
		Defenses from such attacks can therefore reinforce the commitment of the United States to support our allies and friends from NATO to Israel, to the Persian Gulf, to Northeast Asia in the event they face a direct military threat from a rogue state.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/usdefense/Slocombe1199.html (3439 words)

	National Missile Defense - Background
		National Missile Defense research was well-funded but not a priority of the first order until 1998.
		The premise behind NMD is that without the presence of the Soviet Union, the limits on nuclear proliferation and missile technology are gone, and that while we could be certain that the Soviets would never attack the US, since they'd be prompting assured destruction, small "rogue nations" might not be so wise.
		These rogue nations, isolated from the international community and often ruled by dictators unresponsive to their populace, could threaten the United States with nuclear attack out of desperation, and without having to answer to their populaces for risking destruction.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/02/shakin/nmd/background.html (570 words)

	Report:The Marketing of Missile Defense 1994-2000 - World Policy Institute - Research Project
		Staunch supporters of missile defense in Congress want to start deployment immediately, and they have made it clear that they do not intend to settle for the limited National Missile Defense system that the Clinton administration is marketing to the international community and the American public.
		Missile defense continued as a research program during the Bush years, soaking up $3 to $4 billion per year in taxpayer funds, but the zeal that had characterized the Reagan administration's approach to the program had largely dissipated.
		Republican missile defense efforts were held in check during the first two years of the "Gingrich revolution," in large part due to concerns among Republican "deficit hawks" about the program’s staggering price tag, which the Congressional Budget Office had pegged at $31 to $60 billion.
	www.worldpolicy.org /projects/arms/reports/tangled.htm (6760 words)

	National Missile Defense
		The primary mission of National Missile Defense is defense of the United States (all 50 states) against a threat of a limited strategic ballistic missile attack from a rogue nation.
		The objective of the National Missile Defense (NMD) program is to develop and maintain the option to deploy a cost effective, operationally effective, and Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty compliant system that will protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World threats.
		The NMD system is composed of several elements which are required to perform the key functions involved in a ballistic missile defense engagement.
	www.fas.org /spp/starwars/program/nmd (3619 words)

	Mathematics And The National Missile Defense System
		As Congress ponders a $3 billion increase in funding for a national missile defense system, University of Illinois professor Julian Palmore is looking at the program's prospects for success from a mathematician’s perspective.
		The object of the game, as stated, "is to drive the adversary to use weapons other than ballistic missiles without the U.S. deploying a national missile defense."
		Their conclusions are detailed in the August issue of the journal Defense Analysis, in a paper titled "A Game Theory View of Preventive Defense Against Ballistic Missile Attack."
	unisci.com /stories/20013/0821011.htm (412 words)

	National Missile Defense
		As was the case 15 years ago, national missile defenses still are based more on political pipe dreams than on actual scientific capability and are likely to waste more billions of hard-earned tax dollars.
		As one Congressional opponent of missile defenses put it, "Star Wars is like putting a $5,000 burglar alarm on the front door of your house, and yet keeping the front windows of your house open and the back door of your house unlocked.
		If Tehran or Pyongyong were to threaten the United States, they would likely use their shorter-range missiles against American troops abroad, which U.S. theater missile defenses already under development could defend against, but an NMD system could not.
	www.cdi.org /issues/bmd/symposium.html (1489 words)

	National Missile Defense
		From its earliest days until the attacks, the Bush administration appeared to treat the missile threat as its top national security priority by aggressively lobbying for the hastened development and deployment of a controversial antiballistic missile defense system, according to a review by Global Security Newswire of administration statements and official documents.
		The Administration intends to deploy an initial operating capability of a ground-based strategic ballistic missile defense system (GMD), designed to attack incoming missiles in their mid-course phase of flight, beginning in the summer of 2004.
		Comprehensive study of the controversy surrounding missile defense.
	www.clw.org /archive/oldclw/pages/86_10.html (518 words)

	Waste Basket Vol. IX No. 33: Missile Defense Politics
		The National Missile Defense system is an old idea first proposed at the height of the Cold War.
		It is envisioned to provide a multi-layered defense of the entire United States from a relatively small number of intercontinental ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear, biological, or chemical warheads.
		While a system that worked could be worth having, eliminating operational spending on missile defense or postponing it until it ready for prime time would allow these precious billions of dollars to be allocated to our troops and for equipment in Iraq.
	www.taxpayer.net /TCS/wastebasket/nationalsecurity/2004-08-20nmd.htm (533 words)

	IEER: A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense
		In this context, it is not impossible to understand the need for a limited missile defense, if it is truly limited, especially for a global power as the United States, which has vast overseas presence and interests, often in turn a reason to invite attack.
		However, the latter issue is a result of the U.S. missile defense build-up in violation of ABM Treaty.
		Third, establishing a certain level of ballistic missile defense as a protection against accidental and/or unauthorised attack, or a limited intentional attack with ballistic missiles.
	www.ieer.org /latest/shen-ppr.html (3711 words)

	National Missile Defense System, by Noam Chomsky
		The most hopeful prospect for the NMD [National Missile Defense], I think, is that the tests fail; and very clearly, because in the domain of nuclear strategy, appearance is likely to be interpreted as reality, for familiar reasons.
		Following the dramatic failure of the proposed national missile defense system's recent test, the Senate rejected a proposal that would prohibit the Pentagon from deploying the system until it could prove it would work.
		At the UN [United Nations] conference on the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in May, there was broad condemnation of the NMD on the grounds that it would undermine decades of arms control agreements and provoke a new weapons race.
	www.chomsky.info /letters/20000718.htm (585 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Missile Defense Systems Will Work"
		A National Missile Defense (NMD) system has been the topic of much debate in the United States for more than half a century.
		Russia has protested the U.S. government's plans for a national missile shield.
		In 1999, the U.S. Congress decided that the time for talk was over -- they passed a bill calling for the implementation of the NMD system to defend the United States from a growing number of countries developing long-range missile technologies.
	www.howstuffworks.com /missile-defense.htm (222 words)

	The Domestic Politics of National Missile Defense
		Republicans in Congress moved into full gear and in 1999 passed the "National Missile Defense Deployment Act," which said that the U.S. would deploy a national missile defense "as soon as technologically feasible." Then, in October 1999, a test of the proposed defense system succeeded in knocking an incoming missile warhead out of the sky.
		In President Clinton's search for a political legacy, the decision to deploy a limited national missile defense system is unlikely to be one.
		Indeed, to the extent there is any agreement on missile defenses in Washington today it is that the system the Pentagon is proposing to build in Alaska is deeply flawed.
	www.brook.edu /views/op-ed/daalder/20000710.htm (841 words)

	Robert Moran on John Kerry & Missile Defense on National Review Online
		The Kerry campaign hopes their candidate's long record of opposing a robust national missile defense will be forgotten.
		On May 3, 2001, John Kerry called national missile defense a "mythology" on Don Imus's radio show.
		In May 2001 the Boston Herald's Woodlief wrote that John Kerry "wants to croak the hugely costly nuclear missile defense system." And just one day before the 9/11 attacks Joe Biden (D., Del.) gave a National Press Club speech outlining Democrat opposition to national missile defense.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/moran200406020841.asp (510 words)

	National Missile Defense
		On July 23, 1999, President Clinton signed into law H.R. 4, the "National Missile Defense Act of 1999," stating that it is the policy of the United States to deploy as soon as technologically possible an effective NMD system.
		The Clinton Administration is committed to the development of a limited National Missile Defense (NMD) system designed to protect all 50 states from the emerging ballistic missile threat from nations that threaten international peace and security.
		The Principles state that the international community faces a dangerous and growing threat of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, including missiles and missile technologies, and that there is a need to address these threats, including through consideration of changes to the ABM Treaty.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/new/html/Wed_Oct_4_141122_2000.html (1104 words)

	The Magazine of Future Warfare
		Likewise, no "rogue" nation will devote billions of dollars to build, test, and deploy a multi-billion dollar long range missile, when they can simply call a worldwide freight company and arrange for delivery of a crate.
		A more important issue is that the CIA concluded that ballistic missiles are the least likely way that a nuclear weapon would be delivered at the USA.
		In late January, the Air Force's Space Warfare Center staged the Defense Department's first major war game to focus on space as the theater for combat operations.
	www.g2mil.com /June2001.htm (1122 words)

	Taxpayers for Common Sense National Security Project
		September 10, 1998 -- Press Release: National Missile Defense's Third Time Should NOT Be A Charm!
		Missile defense technology is a long way from being perfected.
		July 18, 2000-- Wastebasket Vol.V No. 24: Rigged Missile Defense Test Falls Flat
	www.taxpayer.net /nationalsecurity/nmd.htm (250 words)

	Joe's Missile Defense Reader
		The Political and Strategic Imperatives of National Missile Defense
		Project Director Joseph Cirincione is part of panel discussing missile defenses, 1 May 2001
		Read analysis of this complex issue from an expert who has studied missile proliferation for over 20 years.
	www.ceip.org /files/projects/npp/resources/joesreader.htm (454 words)

	Bush's latest missile-defense folly. By Fred Kaplan
		If at the end of the day we ended up with an effective defense against missiles, it would almost certainly be worth the cost.
		There is, in other words, a vast distance between the Pentagon's current level of testing and the level that would need to be done before anyone could begin to claim that a missile-defense system might shoot down real enemy missiles in a real nuclear attack.
		The anti-missile missiles that Bush plans to deploy later this year are the simplest elements of this system.
	www.slate.com /id/2097087 (1073 words)

	National Missile Defense in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		National Missile Defense and Canada An archive of excerpted documents pertaining to NMD with a strong focus on Canada.
		In Canada, there is a heated debate over participation in the U.S. missile defense program.
		Despite this announcement a radar station for the Missile Defense program is currently being built in Newfoundland and Labrador.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Missile_Defense_in_Canada (1073 words)

	National Missile Defense - President Bush is determined to defend the White House with his newly invented missile defense system!!!
		National Missile Defense - President Bush is determined to defend the White House with his newly invented missile defense system!!!
		President Bush is determined to defend the White House with his newly invented missile defense system!!!
		Use your Mouse to move and prevent the missiles from striking down.
	national-missile-defense.freeonlinegames.com (100 words)

	Boeing: Integrated Defense Systems - Missile Defense Systems - Ground-based Midcourse Defense System Home
		The Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) System is the first missile defense program deployed operationally to defend the homeland against ballistic missile attacks conducted by terrorists or rogue states.
		Boeing Home / Integrated Defense Systems / Network and Space Systems / Missile Defense Systems / Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD)
		Boeing: Integrated Defense Systems - Missile Defense Systems - Ground-based Midcourse Defense System Home
	www.boeing.com /defense-space/space/gmd (269 words)

	Fort Greely - Alaska - and National Missile Defense
		National Missile Defense - The Arctic Dimension - Arctic Circle
		The Role of National Missile Defense in the Environmental History of Alaska- Stacey Fritz
		National Missile Defense: Rushing to Failure - John E. Pike, Federation of American Scientists
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /SEEJ/NMD/alaska/greely (586 words)

	National Missile Defense
		National Missile Defense: Policy Issues and Technological Capabilities, July 2000
		Appendix B: The Evolution of National Missile Defense Policy B.1
		NMD and it's place in the national security spectrum
	www.ifpa.org /publications/nmd_dwnload_main.htm (152 words)

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