In particular, we hope you Administration will explore joint programs and will examine options for sharing missile defense technology with our allies to help them address the missile threats which they also face.
The Islamic republic's "short- and medium-range" missiles pose the most current threat, he said, and "this new ballistic missile defense will best address" that threat.
Interestingly, two of the most vocal of critics of missile defense -- MIT's Professor Theodore Postol and IBM's Richard Garwin -- have been recently sighted recommending that AEGIS ships be adapted for sea-based missile defenses precisely to address this mission.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Critics' Study Makes Case for 'Layered' Missile Defense
Ronald Kadish (USAF), said the United States would need a layered type of defense across a broad front to address an evolving missile threat.
Even Bush used most of the words he devoted to missile defense in a keynote address in Bucharest to underline that the plan is not intended as a threat to Russia.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the United States has made it "very clear" that the purpose of the missile defense system will be to address "emerging" threats from the Middle East.
From the beginning, that missile defense system has been oriented to address threats from Iran and other places.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest
President Bush made absolutely no mention of missile defense in his State of the Union address, an astonishing omission at a time when the war against Islamic fanaticism is at the forefront of American politics and only days after China finally acknowledged that on Jan. 11 it had tested a missile in space by destroying an aging weather satellite.
It could signal the new regime's willingness to deal with Washington and address international concerns over its nuclear and missile programs.
But the immediate commencement of deployment of limited missile defenses at sea offers a way to buy the nation time to begin to address the current threat, while evolving, improving, and augmenting the systems first deployed on an emergency basis.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Get On With It: Time To Deploy Sea-Based Missile Defenses
As it relates to what you said a minute ago, I think if you look back at where people predicted different efforts would be, remember, right after the North Koreans test-fired their long-range -- test-fired a long-range missile, it was widely presumed that there was nothing that could be done to address those actions, largely because the U.N.
Kadish declared that such a layered system, comprised over time of a range of systems to address an evolving threat, would likely utilize sea- and space-based missile defense "layers" to complement and add robustness to the ground-based capability he is preparing for deployment in Alaska.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Critics' Study Makes Case for 'Layered' Missile Defense
Effective deterrence in the future will require a resilient U.S. capability to counter the effects of sustained past growth in Soviet strategic forces and to address the future dynamism of the Soviet threat (as well as the impact of missile proliferation around the globe).
Amazingly, some of those same people -- including Spurgeon Keeney , president of the Arms Control Association and Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes , a former U.S. Arms Control Agency lawyer, who are quoted in today's Washington Post -- are sharply critical of even these modest efforts to understand and begin to address the threat that they purport to regard as a serious one (at least when opposing missile defenses).
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