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Bush Radio Address Points to Need for BMD

February 14, 2004 :: Department of Defense :: News

President Bush’s weekly radio address included an articulation of the need for missile defense, pointing to the possibility of ballistic missiles capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction. The sort of asymmetric, small threats from terrorists and rogue nations must not become a distraction from the continuing strategic, large, threats to our national security.


THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. On September the 11th, 2001, America and the world saw the great harm that terrorists could inflict upon our country, armed with box cutters, mace and 19 airline tickets.

Those attacks also raised the prospect of even worse dangers, of terrorists armed with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. The possibility of secret and sudden attack with weapons of mass destruction is the greatest threat before humanity today.

America is confronting this danger with open eyes and unbending purpose. America faces the possibility of catastrophic attack from ballistic missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction, so we are developing and deploying missile defenses to guard our people.

 

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