NMD - Unnecessary, Ineffective, and Provocative
Friday, May 16th, 2008In March and April, the House National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee held three hearings on the national missile defense (NMD) system. Originally conceived by President Reagan, and known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (nicknamed Star Wars by critics), the concept of NMD was to use space-based interceptors or nuclear-bomb pumped lasers to shoot […]