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Further Reading

• Airborne Laser Program Team Members to 'Celebrate' Critical Design Review This Week April 27, 2000 -- Three and one-half years following the start of design work on a revolutionary airborne theater ballistic-missile defense system, Team ABL this week successfully completed final critical review of its robust design for the Airborne Laser system.
• MISSILE DEFENSE Voice of America 26 April 2000 -- Defense Secretary William Cohen is questioning a new report that puts the cost of a proposed National Missile Defense (N-M-D) at 60 billion dollars --- roughly double previous estimates.
• Deputy Secretary of Defense Rudy de Leon Media Availability Monday, April 24, 2000 -- I think the general view is in fact it will take a little bit more than 30 days after the next shot to evaluate all of the data that comes in from the tests, so once that analysis is completed then you could go and do your critical review. So just working against the calendar, if the test is late June, then you're going to need a month to absorb all the data.

Deputy Secretary de Leon: I think isn't that the federation's cost estimate?
Q: I don't know. Where do they get their numbers then?
Deputy Secretary de Leon: I don't know.
• GLOBAL NETWORK MEMBERSHIP CALLS FOR PROTEST ACTIONS ON/BEFORE NEXT BMD TEST SET FOR JUNE 26 20 April 2000 -- At the Washington DC meetings of the Global Network the membership called for groups worldwide to organize local protest actions on/before the next scheduled test of the BMD system.
• BUDGETARY AND TECHNICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S PLAN FOR NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE Congressional Budget Office - April 2000
• Army to test world's first combat laser KENT FAULK The Birmingham News 04/18/2000 -- John Pike, policy analyst for the Federation of American Scientists, said he believes there may be no real use for such a laser system.
• Missile Defense Milestones: 1944 - 2000, April 2000
• Missile Defense Chief Says System Can Deal with Countermeasures By Ralph Dannheisser Washington File 12 April 2000 -- The U.S. Air Force general overseeing development of the proposed national missile defense system says that a panel of scientists urging abandonment of the project misses the point of the effort.
• Statement on Have Stare Secretary of the Air Force Office of Public Affairs SAF/PAM - 07 April 2000
• Text: Air Force Official Says National Missile Defenses Are Highly Complex 06 April 2000 -- Air Force Lieutenant General Ronald Kadish told members of Congress and their staffs that the limited National Missile Defense (NMD) program being explored as a defense against a projected threat to the continental United States "is one of the most complex systems our country has ever attempted to develop and produce."
• ANTHRAX STUDY Voice of America 04 April 2000 -- In a new report, U-S scientists say they don't know if a vaccine against anthrax causes any long term health problems.
• ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE Voice of America03 April 2000 -- The Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers says a decision to deploy the proposed limited national missile defense would increase, rather than reduce, nuclear dangers.