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...short distance--as well as safety concerns--means the mock warhead won't be traveling as fast as a genuinely hostile one. This "single end-game geometry," said an independent review panel headed by retired General Larry Welch last fall, "raises questions about the ability of the flight-test program to verify system performance." The Pentagon says it will use computer simulations to replicate other attack angles and ensure that the system can defend against incoming warheads following different paths...
...fact, will basically shout, "Here I am!" to those trying to shoot it down. That's because it will carry a global-positioning-system transmitter, the same satellite technology that keeps motorists from getting lost. Although Pentagon documents say GPS data will help guide the interceptor during test flights, program officials say the data will be used only if other methods fail. Any use of GPS data, says Coyle, "does not suitably stress the system in a realistic enough manner to support acquisition decisions...
...Americans worry more about dotcom stocks falling on the NASDAQ than they do about missiles falling from the sky. For those who do fear nuclear holocaust, however, there is www.protectamericansnow.com There you can get your very own "Customized Missile Threat Profile." Just type in your ZIP code, and the program will tell you which countries purportedly have the ability to hit your community with intercontinental ballistic missiles--and which countries may soon have the power to make your life that kind of nightmare. The site was masterminded by Frank Gaffney, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan...
...heart of Ronald Reagan's 1983 Star Wars program lives on, kept beating by a mix of election-year politicking, behind-the-scenes defense-industry puppeteering, and a fiercely committed group of conservative think tanks and antimissile-system advocates. It has propelled the National Missile Defense (NMD) system toward this Friday's scheduled test over the Pacific and is likely to move its development forward no matter the result. Pentagon officials liken the congressional push to deploy such a system to the early 1980s' fervent but vain effort to implement a "nuclear freeze" on the U.S. military. But they...
Last April, in a quest to find out how any town can hold on to something special in the age of such nihilistic homogenization, I went to Boston for an education. The National Trust for Historic Preservation helps towns reclaim their heritage through its Main Street program, and most of the 1,500 communities on board sent representatives to workshops in Boston, where the opening ceremony turned into a pep rally for the resurrection of the American downtown. The room was filled with stories of vacant storefronts reopening, of hard-fought triumphs over ridiculous zoning restrictions and blockheaded indifference...