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Larry Dighera wrote:

On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:07:23 GMT, "Thomas J. Paladino Jr."
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"Scott Ferrin" wrote in message
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The so-called "Union of Concerned Scientists " has been politically opposed
to the missile shield since day one. It's no surprise that they would come
out with a report like this.

Here's the web page:
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_securit...fm?pageID=1403

I wonder, if they're so 'concerned', did they also provide any technical
solutions to the problems they supposedly found, or did they take the
typical defeatist "It's impossible and will never work so just give up and
never try again" attitude that most opponents of the missile shield take?

You can examine the full report he
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_securit...ageID=1403#Top

The *really* funny part is that they keep unfavorably comparing the new
missile defense system to the one the Clinton administration was working
on (that the UCS also didn't like when it was on the boards, but which
is apparently now the "gold standard").

There's a lot of handwaving in the UCS report, most of which is "we're
not sure they can ever fix the US BMD system, but we are sure that
places like North Korea will easily handle the similar technical
problems inherent in making useful decoys without significant research
efforts, and it won't impact their missile payloads, even though nobody
else has demonstrated such countermeasures without a lot of missile
flights."

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