A defense that will not defend

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 109-123

  Garwin, Richard L ^a  

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EID: 0000356313     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/016366000561006     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. 1999 National Security Strategy Report (January 4, 2000).
2. Strategic aircraft and air defense systems were handled by the Military Aircraft Panel, which I chaired for many of those years.
3. See 〈http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bm-threat.htm〉.
4. f = eV/E.
5. H.R. 4, March 18, 1999.
6. "The Cochran-Inouye National Missile Defense Act of 1999," S. 257, March 17, 1999.
7. An extensive technical treatment of countermeasures and their implication for the NMD program is to be found in "Countermeasures: A Technical Evaluation of the Operational Effectiveness of the Proposed U.S. National Missile Defense System" (April 11, 2000) available at 〈http://www.ucsusa.org〉 from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I am an author of that report, in which a far more extensive analysis of antisimulation balloon decoys may be found.
8. Central Intelligence Agency, National Intelligence Estimate "Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States Through 2015," unclassified version available at 〈http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/nie/ nie99msl/html〉 (September 1999).
9. See my proposal for such a system, "Cooperative Ballistic Missile Defense" at 〈http://www.fas.org/rlg〉 (November 17, 1999).