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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung
AGA 2: Missiles, Missile Defense, and Disarmament
AGA 2.3: Talk
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11:30–12:00, A 151
Missile Defense in Europe - Cooperation or a New Arms Race? — •Götz Neuneck1, Christian Alwardt1, and Hans-Christian Gils2 — 1IFSH University Hamburg — 2DLR Institut für Technische Thermodynamik, Stuttgart
The planned US missile defense architecture in Europe consists of ship-based Aegis interceptors which also might proliferate to the land. Despite serious doubts in the functionality of this Hit-to-Kill technology, the so-called "European Phased Adaptive Approach" provokes Russia and could lead to the end of nuclear disarmament and derail Russian-European relations thus making any progress in nuclear disarmament impossible. A physics-based model helps to understand the conditions under which an European BMD system could undermine the Russian deterrence arsenal. After presenting some simulation results we present some ideas how a NATO-Russian cooperation might evolve.