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U.S. senator calls for space-based
interceptor missiles
RIA
Novosti
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
United States Senator Wayne Allard has called for interceptor
missiles to be deployed on satellites in permanent orbit, so that
the U.S. can rapidly respond to threats anywhere on Earth.
Washington has not given serious consideration to deploying weapons
in space since the Strategic Defense Initiative proposed by President
Ronald Reagan in 1983, nicknamed Star Wars. The idea was finally
scrapped under Bill Clinton.
"A layer of space-based interceptors would enable a global
on-call missile defense capability that could produce a timely
response to rapidly evolving situations and would enable the U.S.
to be prepared for all types of threats that could develop out
of unpredictable locations," the senator, who chairs the
Senate Space Caucus, told the National Space Symposium in Colorado
on Tuesday.
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The space-based interceptors would add to the existing missile
defense system, which is already proving controversial. U.S. plans
to deploy a missile shield in Central Europe have brought relations
with Moscow to a post-Cold War low.
Allard said a space defense system would meet modern threats,
protecting against unpredictable attacks from small, well-funded
groups.
The country needs interceptors that "would be able to reach
targets more rapidly and are capable of destroying enemy missiles
in the boost phase."
"I think this makes more sense than going back into the
'assured mutual destruction' mentality of times gone by."
However, he rejected comparisons with the Strategic Defense initiative.
"This is not anything like the Star Wars," Allard said.
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