July 1999 Space News |
- Missile Program Criticized Despite 1st Successful Test By PAUL RICHTER Los Angeles Times 29 July 1999 -- John Pike, a defense analyst at the Federation of American Scientists, said quality standards are especially important in an anti-missile program, since one missed missile could cause huge numbers of casualties.
- Reality test for 'star wars' defense James N. Thurman The Christian Science Monitor 28 July 1999 -- . Engineers have been at a loss to consistently hit incoming missiles. "You aren't going to fly on an airplane that's crashed every time but once," says John Pike, head of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists.
- Preparing For A Grave New World William S. Cohen The Washington Post 26 July 1999 -- Oursupremacy in the conventional arena is prompting adversaries to seek unconventional, asymmetric means to strike our Achilles' heel. A special Task Force for Civil Support is being created to ensure that we have the military assets necessary to help respond domestically.
- National Missile Defense (NMD) System U.S. Department of State Press Statement July 23, 1999 -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright strongly believes and has stated that any NMD (National Missile Defense) system that the United States may decide to deploy needs to provide protection for every part of all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii.
- BMD Update 23 July 1999 -- Article Citations From Published Journals And Newsletters
- DoD News Briefing Thursday, July 22, 1999 -- Obviously, the House Appropriations Committee believes that the language terminated the MEADS program. We read the language of the authorization bill as giving us the authority to support--to use their language--"alternative, programmatic and technical approaches to meeting the requirement for mobile theater missile defense."
- Missile collision will test defense Mary Boyle - The Gazette ( Colorado Springs, Colo. ) July 19, 1999 "Every test in a program of this kind is a big deal," said John Pike, a space analyst for the Federation of American Scientists and a missile defense critic. "It'll be closely watched."
- Commission Urges New Effort to Curb Weapons of Mass Destruction USIA 14 July 1999 -- Declaring that the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) poses "a chilling challenge for the American people," former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Deutch has delivered a bipartisan commission's report to Congress proposing ways to strengthen the U.S. government's efforts to fight the threat.
- Cohen, Shelton Rap Times' Editorial on Anthrax Shots By Douglas J. Gillert American Forces Press Service 14 July 1999 -- Halting mandatory anthrax shots would represent a "significant disservice" to men and women in uniform, Defense Secretary William Cohen and Gen. Henry Shelton said in a written rebuttal to the Army Times Publishing Co.
- Confusion Causes Anthrax Flap By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service 02 July 1999 -- A misreading of a routine contracting procedure caused a spate of news stories June 29 that questioned whether DoD's anthrax vaccine is safe. Army and DoD officials issued statements clarifying the contract provision and reassuring service members and their families that the vaccine is safe.
- U.S. Navy tests TBMD interoperability at sea NAVSEA Wire Service 99-21 (July 2, 1999) Two-ballistic missile targets were successfully launched and tracked. The ships demonstrated the capability to pass target cueing and tracking information to each other, as well as other joint Theater Missile Defense (TMD) systems.
- TACTICAL HIGH ENERGY LASER ACTD ACHEIVES "FIRST LIGHT" July 1, 1999 -- On June 26, 1999 the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) laser subsystem achieved "first light" at the TRW Capistrano Test Facility in California. "First light" is the first successful test of a laser. The test demonstrated the end-to-end capability of the laser subsystem and demonstrated the laser optical control of extracting a high-energy laser beam.
