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Rockets’ Red Glare - by Yousaf Butt | Foreign Policy

In fact, the CIA’s own top specialist in strategic nuclear programs testified in 2000 that “[m]any countries, such as North Korea [and] Iran … probably would rely initially on readily available technology … to develop penetration aids and countermeasures. These countries could develop countermeasures based on these technologies by the time they flight test their missiles.”

Unfortunately, warnings of such fatal weaknesses were not heeded in designing the NATO missile defense system. Now, two government-sponsored scientific studies have shown that the missile defense system being planned to protect the United States and Europe is fundamentally flawed and will not work under combat conditions. As Philip Coyle, who was associate director for national security and international affairs in the Obama administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, recently put it, the program is “chasing scientific dead ends, unworkable concepts and a flawed overall architecture.”