Pentagon deploys experimental missile shield to Hawaii

In the wake of North Korea’s recent launch and nuclear test, the U.S. is preparing to deploy the Army Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense missile systems, still in development, to Hawaii, as well as deploying the experimental, floating SBX missile-defense radar. Although General James Cartwright said he was confident a North Korean missile could be intercepted in the unlikely event it flew over  U.S. territory, both programs are controversial. Philip Coyle of the Ploughshares-funded Center for Defense Information said, “The bottom line is that the designers of this system didn’t begin to contemplate the realistic conditions under which the X-band would have to operate.”