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 [2]of the Ploughshares-funded Center for Defense Information [3]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.”
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/867
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/112
[3] http://www.cdi.org/
[4] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/pentagon-deploys-experimental-missile-defenses-to-shield-hawaii/