May 2000 Space News |
- Army tests missile-tracking system (Army News Service, May 31, 2000) Joint National Test Facility personnel tracked the launch of a modified U.S. Air Force Minuteman II missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
- DoD News Briefing May 30, 2000 -- We have always realized that there is a possibility that there could be a sea-based supplement to, or element in, a national missile defense system.
- MISSILE DEFENSE-THREE Voice of America 30 May 2000 -- Whether or not it works as intended, critics worry that a proposed U-S ballistic missile defense system could prompt a nuclear arms race.
- MISSILE DEFENSE-TWO Voice of America 30 May 2000 -- The debate in the United States over ballistic missile defense concerns both its technology and its strategic impact. Supporters are sure it will work; critics say it will not.
- MISSILE DEFENSE-ONE Voice of America 30 May 2000 -- Ballistic missile defense is expected to be a major topic at the upcoming summit between President Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin. But analysts say that is all it will be: talk.
- Governor Bush, Clinton Administration Spar Over Missile Defense CNN SUNDAY May 28, 2000 -- JOHN PIKE, FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: When they look at these plans, they're going to think that this would disarm them. They're going to wind up building a lot more missiles pointed at America.
- Army Space and Missile Defense Command demonstrates new ballistic missile target On May 28, 2000, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) successfully conducted the demonstration flight of the Orbital/Suborbital Program, or OSP, Target Launch Vehicle, or TVL.
- HUNGARY - NATO PARLIAMENT Voice of America 27 May 2000 -- European NATO member nations accused the United States of working on its own to develop a system known as the National Missile Defense system, or N-M-D.
- Missile Defense Now By George W. Bush Washington Times May 25, 2000 -- America must build effective missile defenses, based on the best available options, at the earliest possible date.
- MISSILE FRAUD Voice of America 25 May 2000 -- A prominent weapons expert says the planned U-S missile defense system will not work, and charges that officials have lied to cover up the program's flaws.
- Bush Vows To Beef Up Star Wars By RICHARD SISK [New York] Daily News 24 May 2000 -- "Basically, this is just the missile defense plan his [Bush's] daddy inherited from Ronald Reagan," said John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists.
- Bush Seeks Deployment of Missile Defense and Reduction of Missiles May 24, 2000 - George W. Bush today called for a national security policy focused on creating a missile defense system to protect all 50 states and U.S. friends and allies, combined with reductions in the number of nuclear missiles consistent with America's national security.
- Statement By Douglas Hattaway Regarding George W. Bush's Press Conference on Nuclear Weapons - Al Gore proposes a more responsible approach to protecting America that is realistic, feasible and likely to ensure real security.
- New Leadership on National Security Governor George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. May 23, 2000 -- Now the approach it proposes is flawed - a system initially based on a single site, when experts say that more is needed. The administration is driving toward a hasty decision, on a political timetable. No decision would be better than a flawed agreement that ties the hands of the next President and prevents America from defending itself.
- BUSH-NUCLEAR Voice of America 23 May 2000 -- Republican presidential candidate George W-Bush would build a national missile defense network - which, he says, the Clinton administration should not prevent.
- DOD supports nationwide crisis management exercise (AFPN) 22 May 2000 -- Top Off -- an acronym for "Top Officials," which unites the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FBI, DOD and other agencies -- is a 10-day, multi-agency crisis management and consequence management exercise.
- Postol Complains of Improper Classification, letter to White House Chief of Staff John Podesta from MIT Professor Theodore Postol, May 19, 2000 -- I therefore conclude that Mr. Englander is most likely attempting to illegally use the security and classification system to hide waste, fraud, and abuse by his agency, the BMDO.
- DoD News Briefing Thursday, May 18, 2000 -- Now, let me just say one thing directed at Dr. Postol's letter. He focused primarily on one test, so-called the Integrated Flight Test 1A. That test occurred several years ago, and it involved an interceptor made by Boeing TRW. When Boeing came to make the choice of the kill vehicle, the interceptor vehicle, it did not choose its own kill vehicle. It chose instead one made by Raytheon.
- MISSILE DEFENSE Voice of America 18 May 2000 -- A prominent critic of Washington's efforts to build a system to shoot down attacking ballistic missiles says a key part of the scheme does not work and never will.
- ANTHRAX Voice of America 17 May 2000 -- Defense Secretary William Cohen says the U-S Military will continue vaccinating troops against the deadly anthrax virus -- even though dozens of members of Congress are demanding a halt to the controversial program.
- Postol Analysis of BMDO Integrated Flight Test - 1A, letter to White House Chief of Staff John Podesta from MIT Professor Theodore Postol, May 11, 2000 -- The BMDO's own data shows that the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle will be defeated by the simplest of balloon decoys. I also have documentation that shows that the BMDO... attempted to hide this fact....
- Attachment A:Explanation of Why the Sensor in the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) Cannot Reliably Discriminate Decoys from Warheads -- Even under the highly orchestrated conditions of the IFT-1A experiment, the sensor flyby data showed that for at least some of the objects, there were no features in the data to indicate that they were not the warhead.
- Attachment B: Technical Discussion of the Misinterpreted Results of theIFT-1A Experiment Due to Tampering With the Data and Analysis and Errors in the Interpretation of the Data -- "These meaningless figures, and the associated meaningless conclusions reached by the BMDO and POET, simply illustrate that complex mathematical procedures, of any kind, applied mindlessly to data that contains no information, will inevitably lead to a meaningless result."
- Attachment C: Collected and Annotated Defense Criminal Investigation Service Documents Associated With the Investigation of Tampering With the Scientific and Technical Data and Analysis from the IFT-1A National Missile Defense Experiment
- Attachment D: Independent Review of TRW Discrimination Techniques, Final Report, POET Study 1998-5, M-J. Tsai, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Larry Ng, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Glenn Light, Aerospace Corporation, Frank Handler, POET/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Charles Meins, MIT Lincoln Laboratory -- "Reliable prior knowledge on many of the threat types included in the TRD [Technical Requirements Document] cannot be obtained."
- Key Missile Defense Radar Planned for Remote Island By Roberto Suro Washington Post Sunday, May 7, 2000; Page A06 -- The difficulty of erecting a radar dome on Shemya is driving the tight decision-making schedule that requires President Clinton to give a go-ahead by this fall for the system to be ready within five years.
- ISRAEL / U-S / RADAR Voice of America 04 May 2000 -- Trials are now being conducted for laser technology to be used by Israel along its northern border to block rocket attacks by Lebanese guerrilla fighters.
- Deputy Secretary of Defense Rudy de Leon Media availability May 1, 2000 -- This is a system that is designed really to deal with the rogue threat. In the discussions, and it's very clear in some of the briefings, this is not a system that is designed to deal with the Russian strategic deterrence.
