Ballistic Missile Defense: New Plans, Old Challenges

摘要

On September 17, 2009the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 that marked the beginning of World War IIthe Obama Administration announced its intention to shelve plans for the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) that had been developed under former President George W. Bush. Pointing to a new intelligence assessment, President Obama argued that his predecessor's plan to deploy an X-band radar station outside of Prague, Czech Republic, and 10 two-stage interceptor missiles in Poland would not adequately protect America and its European allies from the Iranian threat and reiterated his opposition to utilizing unproven technology in any European BMD architecture.