Proposed US Missile Defense in Europe:
Technological Issues Relevant to Policy
Date: 28 August 2007
Location:
2212 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC
Noon - 1:30 PM
Sponsored by:
AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy
The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy invites you to the next of our lunch-time Science and Security Seminar Series. The Bush administration has presented plans to the Congress and to European allies and friends for a missile defense system to defend Europe from postulated ballistic missile attacks from Iran. The Russians have objected to the US plan on grounds that it could threaten the "strategic balance." In particular, the Russians have expressed concerns about the US choice to place a large X-band radar in the Czech Republic and an interceptor launch site in Poland.
Earlier this year Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that if Iran was the target of U.S.missile defense efforts, that Russia could provide data from some of its early warning radars in return for modifications of the US proposed defense deployment. Questions have been raised about whether the US defense deployment is in fact a threat to Russia. Are there advantages to locating missile defense radars and interceptors in locations other than Poland and the Czech Republic? And finally, could ground-based radars be used in conjunction with sea-based missile defense to protect Europe?
Please join MIT Professor Theodore Postol for a lunch discussion of these and other related issues:
When: Tuesday, August 28, noon – 1:30 PM
Where: 2212 Rayburn House Office Building
Please RSVP online.
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