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AKA: Physik und Abrüstung

AKA 3: Raketenabwehr

AKA 3.1: Invited Talk

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 10:15–11:15, TU PC203

US Missile Defenses: Technical and Political Realities — •Lisbeth Gronlund — Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge/Mass.

This presentation will begin with a discussion of the current status and future plans of the US program to develop and deploy defenses against long-range missiles. It will cover several technical issues, including the flight intercept test program and what capabilities have been demonstrated through these flight tests; and the predicted effectiveness of the current and planned systems against a long-range missile attack by a developing country. Finally, it will describe the US political debate about missile defenses and its likely impact on the future of the program.