The continuing debate on national missile defenses

Physics Today

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 36-43

  Gronlund, Lisbeth ^a   Lewis, George N ^a   Wright, David C ^b  

^a UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0002870775     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1341913     Document Type: Article

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9. The NMD program includes a series of 21 integrated flight tests (IFTs), of which the first intercept test was IFT-3, on 2 October 1999. For an assessment of the test program to date by the director of operational testing and evaluation, see P. E. Coyle, "Statement on National Missile Defense before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations," 8 September 2000, available at http://www.house.gov/reform/ns/Statements/coyle_sept_8.htm.
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