Wolfowitz: Ship-Launched Missiles Threaten United States
Nearly one year to the day after Secretary of Defense Donald Romsfeld warned of a ship based launch of a ballistic missile as already having taken place by an unidentified “rogue state,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz similarly observed the salience of this type of threat:
While much of the discussion of the ballistic missile threat is focused on outlaw states developing long-range ballistic missiles that could reach our shores and those of our friends and allies, let me share with you another possibility. We know that North Korea, Iran and Iraq are developing long-range ballistic missiles. That is the familiar line of threat development. But what is to stop such countries from launching shorter-range ballistic missiles that they already possess today from cargo ships near our shores, perhaps using non-state terrorist surrogates to attack without fingerprints. It’s not a far-fetched threat. The United States test launched a captured German V-2 rocket from the deck of a ship in 1947. And recently we have observed indications of an outlaw state attempting to do the same thing with a short-range ballistic missile from a ship.
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» October 21, 2001: Rumsfeld: a rogue state has tested a ship-launched missile
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Miller on Israel’s Arrow Missile Defense system
Miller discusses the advances in Israel’s Arrow deployments.
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Miller on PBS’s Anti-Missile Defense Bias
Miller discusses the bias of PBS’s
Missile Wars television program.
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Ambassador Cooper: the Danger from a Ship-Based Missile Attack and the Proper Response
Ambassador Henry Cooper delivered a paper at a conference hosted by the Marshall Institute, discussing the threat from ship-launched ballistic missiles by rogue regimes or terrorists, and the proper and creative thinking necessary (and newly possible, after the withdrawal from the ABM Treaty) to defend against such a threat.
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