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AKA: Arbeitskreis Physik und Abrüstung

AKA 5: Missile Proliferation and Missile Defense

AKA 5.1: Talk

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 15:00–15:30, H 0110

Exploitable Technical Flaws in the US Missile Defense for Europe — •Ted Postol — MIT, Science and Global Security Working Group, 77 Mass. Ave., Building E51-163, Cambridge MA 02139

The United States is proposing to deploy missile defense components in Europe to defend its European allies from postulated intermediate range ballistic missile attacks from Iran. The US argument for the urgency of this deployment is based on assumptions that Iran will be able to develop the very substantial technical and industrial infrastructure to build such missiles by 2015. If one assumes that such a technically challenging, ambitious and aggressive development program can be successfully implemented by Iran, then one must also assume that the Iranian development program would also be able to build countermeasures commensurate with the technical prowess demonstrated by the success of such a program. This talk will look at the serious technical flaws in the proposed US missile defense that could be exploited by any adversary capable of building intermediate range ballistic missiles