From China Post:
“Hitting a bullet with a bullet” is the way even proponents of anti-ballistic missile systems describe the extraordinary technical challenge. Yet there has been sustained pressure within the United States government for a half-century to build such weapons.
President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia has brought this complex — and ominous — subject back to the headlines by flamboyantly announcing deployment of Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, a forward area close to Western Europe. The Bush administration some time ago announced planned deployment of U.S. anti-ballistic missiles in Poland, with associated radar installations in the Czech Republic. The focus of this development is Europe but the implications are global, including direct bearing on Asia, given North Korea’s fitful and at times frightening nuclear moves.
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“Hitting a bullet with a bullet” is the way even proponents of anti-ballistic missile systems describe the extraordinary technical challenge. Yet there has been sustained pressure within the United States government for a half-century to build such weapons.
President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia has brought this complex — and ominous — subject back to the headlines by flamboyantly announcing deployment of Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, a forward area close to Western Europe. The Bush administration some time ago announced planned deployment of U.S. anti-ballistic missiles in Poland, with associated radar installations in the Czech Republic. The focus of this development is Europe but the implications are global, including direct bearing on Asia, given North Korea’s fitful and at times frightening nuclear moves.
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