Holes in the Missile Shield

Published: Dec 15, 2004
Source: www.sciam.com



An excellent article of the Scientific American magazine covers the errors and potential uselessness of the current plans for the US missile defense program.

"The MDA's midcourse system is built to intercept long-range missiles fired thousands of kilometers from the U.S.; it can do nothing to stop a short- or medium-range missile launched from a ship off America's coasts. What is more, the interceptor rockets would most likely prove inadequate against long-range missiles as well, because an enemy could easily equip its ICBMs with fundamentally simple and highly effective countermeasures."continue..