National Missile Defense and Early Warning Radars: Background and Issues
Description:
The Clinton Administration is scheduled to decide by Fall 2000 whether the
United States should begin deploying a National Missile Defense (NMD) system.This system could achieve initial operational capability by 2005 and would be designed to protect the United States from a limited attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). As currently envisioned, the NMD system would operate as an integrated system that would rely on a variety of sensors to detect and track incoming missiles. One …
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Date:
August 25, 2000
Creator:
Chasteen, Larry
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