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Smith on the KEI

May 20, 2004 :: Analysis

David J. Smith of the National Institute for Public Policy defends the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) as it is making its way through congressional committees for funding.
        Smith’s piece in the Tucson Citizen seems to be a hometown push for the Tucson-based KEI program. Smith argues persuasively for the need for boost-phase defenses as part of a layered missile defense. But while the KEI is a boost-phase program, Smith does not address any of the recent criticisms, that a boost phase program based on land is inherently problematic, in no small part because of the need to be in the right place at the right time, namely very near to the launch site of any missile which it is meant to intercept. The ability of the KEI to be based in space or sea, however, would go far to eliminating many of its problems. (Article)

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