Governmental Resources:

Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), FY2000 annual report
selected quotes:
http://www.clw.org/nmd/nmdreportquotes.html
Phillip Coyle, then Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) in the Department of Defense (1994-2001), released FY00 Annual Report criticizing NMD tests: "The Integrated Ground Tests (IGTs) conducted to date are by design being conducted using current configurations of element hardware and software and do not have all of the planned functionality of the initial deployment (C1) design. This has precluded a true assessment of the potential operational effectiveness of the system that is planned for deployment."

Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), FY1999 annual report
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/budget/fy1999/dot-e/99TOC1.html
In its FY99 Annual Report, DOT&E criticizes the NMD program s schedule: "Undue pressure has been placed on the program to meet an artificial decision point in the development process."

Report in Support of National Missile Defense Deployment Readiness Review, August 10, 2000
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/nmdcoylerep.pdf
DOT&E disclosed malfunctions in NMD s command and control system and other subsystems. The Pentagon did not approve a release of the report and only distributed it to members of Congress after being threatened with a subpoena.

Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States Through 2015 -- The National Intelligence Estimate of 1999
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/nie/nie99msl.html
Published by the CIA, details the threat of a ballistic missile attack on the United States by foreign states. It also mentions that ballistic missiles are not the only, or most likely, threat to the United States from weapons of mass destruction.

Report of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, July 15, 1998
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bm-threat.htm
The Rumsfeld Commission states that ballistic missile threat to the U.S. could emerge with little warning and likely will appear sooner than US intelligence agencies have estimated. UCS Board Member Richard Garwin served on this commission.

Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/html/bmdolink.html
This website contains a large amount of official information about the missile threat and about missile defenses.

US Department of State, Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Missile Defense homepage
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/arms/nmd/
Contains latest developments, links to official documents and both governmental and nongovernmental resources.

Critical Military Technologies List
http://www.dtic.mil/mctl/
For information about weapons delivery systems including ICBMs, cruise missiles, aircraft and artillery.

Nongovernmental Resources:

The Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
http://www.clw.org/coalition/libbmd.htm
Maintains a library on ballistic missile defenses which includes statements by government officials and nongovernmental organizations, as well as editorials, polls, and other information. Includes Pushing the Limits: The Decision on National Missile Defense, a briefing book that takes an in-depth look at each of the four criteria that President Clinton considered in his decision not to deploy a NMD.

The Council for a Livable World
http://www.clw.org/nmd.html
Maintains information including US government report and analyses of ballistic missile defense.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Non-proliferation Project
http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/npp_home.ASP
Maintains a list of links to resources about missile defenses.

The Federation of American Scientists [www.fas.org] website contains a number of original documents relevant to missile proliferation and missile defenses.

Both the Intelligence Resource Program http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/index.html and Space Policy Project http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/index.html are especially useful.

The Center for Defence and International Security Studies
http://www.cdiss.org/defences.htm
An interdisciplinary research center based in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University in the UK. The Center maintains a website with information on ballistic missiles and missile defenses.

The Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy Studies, Missile Defense and Nuclear Weapons
http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/fp/research/areas/nmd/nmd.htm
Contains arms control document archive, links to various kinds of resources.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Nuclear Files.org
http://www.nuclearfiles.org
Maintains various aspects of NMD, such as official documents, treaties, history, transcripts of landmark speeches and international perspectives.

Center for Defense Information, National Missile Defense
http://www.cdi.org/hotspots/issuebrief/default.asp
Contains a wide range of information of NMD, such as history, cost, impact and recent development.

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Occasional Papers
http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/opapers.htm
Contain various perspectives of NMD and missile proliferation

The Last 15 Minutes: Ballistic Missile Defense in Perspective
edited by Joseph Cirncione and Frank von Hippel has an online edition.
http://www.clw.org/coalition/last15.htm

The Missile Index
http://www.index.ne.jp/missile_e/
For a list of missiles by mission or country