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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 4: Missile Defense and Nuclear Disarmament

AGA 4.2: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 18, 2010, 15:00–16:00, JUR D

Does Missile Defense undermine Strategic Stability and Future Disarmament? — •Götz Neuneck — c/o IFSH, Beim Schlump 83; 20144 Hamburg

The Obama-Administration announced the cancellation of the Missile Defense plans of the previous Bush-II- Administration, but the US will proceed with a new MD-infrastructure that depends heavily on the use of the US Navy SM-3 interceptors which can be produced in high numbers. Some voices in Russia still argue that in the long run the deployment of global MD elements can undermine the deterrence arsenals of Nuclear weapon states thus, undermining strategic stability. The relationship between missile defense and deterrence is ambiguous; missile defense potentially jeopardizes classical deterrence based on mutually assured destruction (MAD) and can create an incentive to arms race and the development of counter-measures. The contributions examines under which condition missile defense can challenge future nuclear disarmament or contribute for a nuclear weapon free world.