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Science 16 April 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5413, pp. 416 - 420
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5413.416
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MILITARY RESEARCH:
Missile Defense Rides Again

James Glanz

A new push to erect a ballistic missile shield is technologically more plausible than the 1980s "Star Wars" program, shunning ambitious technologies in favor of existing know-how. To skeptics, however, the effort remains futile and dangerous. They argue that any system deployed nationally could alarm adversaries that the United States could launch a first strike and then parry a counterattack, and that no matter how good, the system would be vulnerable to crude countermeasures such as decoys.

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