Countermeasures Links: A Technical Evaluation of the Operational Effectiveness of the Planned US National Missile Defense System
Countermeasures
Andrew Sessler, John M. Cornwall, Bob Dietz, Steve Fetter, Sherman Frankel, Richard L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, Lisbeth Gronlund, George N. Lewis, Theodore A. Postol, and David C. Wright
A technical analysis of countermeasures to the NMD system the United States is currently developing. (175 pages)
April 2000
Countermeasures video (4 minutes)
An illustration of how countermeasures could fool an NMD system.
April 2000
Letter to Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
Letter from the authors of the Countermeasures report to Lt. Gen. Kadish in response to his testimony regarding the report before the House Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Veteran's Affairs, and International Relations on 8 Sept. 2000.
29 Sept 2000
The Continuing Debate on National Missile Defenses
Lisbeth Gronlund, George Lewis, and David Wright
Physics Today 53 (12), pp. 36-42.
December 2000
The Planned US National Missile Defense System - Obsolete before Deployment
Lisbeth Gronlund.
In Burkard Schmitt and Julian Lindley-French (Eds), National Missile Defence and the Future of Nuclear Policy / La National Missile Defence et l'avenir de la politique nucléaire (Paris, France: The Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union), Occasional Paper 18
September 2000.
National Missile Defense: Test Failures and Technology Development
Lisbeth Gronlund.
Testimony before the US House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Veteran's Affairs, and International Relations
September 8, 2000
On the Technical Readiness of National Missile Defenses
David C. Wright
Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations May 4, 1999
