Photo: LEE CELANO/AFP/Getty ImagesHyperfast Missile To Hit Anywhere In An Hour -- Times Online
HAUNTED by the memory of a lost opportunity to kill Osama Bin Laden before he attacked the World Trade Center in New York, US military planners have won President Barack Obama’s support for a new generation of high-speed weapons that are intended to strike anywhere on Earth within an hour.
Obama’s interest in Prompt Global Strike (PGS), a nonnuclear weapons programme, has alarmed China and Russia and complicated nuclear arms reduction negotiations.
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My Comment: President Obama clearly wants to have this option on his table .... the problem is that is such a weapon is used, the Russians and/or Chinese may interpret such a launch as a nuclear attack.
The best analysis on this new weapon system comes from Joseph Cirincione at Foreign Policy. The link to his analysis and commentary is here.