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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 4: Missile Defense and Nuclear Disarmament

AGA 4.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 18, 2010, 14:00–15:00, JUR D

Options for European Missile Defense — •Dean Wilkening — CISAC, Stanford University

On September 17, 2009 President Obama cancelled the US missile defense "Third Site" which called for the deployment of ten ground-based interceptors in Poland and a European Midcourse (X-band) Radar in the Czech Republic. This talk examines the technical effectiveness of this architecture against hypothetical Iranian ballistic missile threats in an effort to explain why it was cancelled, as well as the impact of this system on Russia's missile force. In its place the Obama Administration proposed a "phased adaptive architecture" consisting of four distinct phases timed to coincide with four different versions of the US Standard Missile-3 interceptor to be deployed over the next decade. This talk will address the potential effectiveness of this architecture. This analysis forms the basis upon which to discuss NATO participation in a European missile defense architecture, possible Russian participation, and the likely strategic and arms control impact of these systems in Europe and beyond