Aerial view of the air field and existing Polish military base in Radzikowo, near Slupsk, northern Poland, the possible site of part of the U.S. missile shield
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U.S. Physicists Admit Threat to Russia
Five leading American physicists have stated that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is deceiving its NATO allies with its claims that the missile defense systems it plans to install in Poland and the Czech Republic does not present a risk to Russia. Theodore Postol, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, George Lewis of Cornell University studied the American missile defense system for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
The physicists concluded that the system would be able to intercept Russian missiles as well as Iranian, and that it would be more effective to place the system closer to Iran to defend against its missiles. They contradicted U.S. military claims that the American missiles would lack the speed necessary to neutralize Russian missiles, saying that the American missiles will travel at 9 km./sec., which is sufficient speed to intercept Russian ballistic missiles.
Nobel laureate Richard Garwin, designer of the first hydrogen bomb, agreed with those conclusions. Philip Coyle, former associate director of Livermore Laboratory, and David Wright of the NGO Union of Concerned Scientists also supported Postol and Lewis's findings.
Missile Defense Agency representatives have stated that the scientists' research is flawed and that their theoretical models do not take account of all the factor sinvolved in a real missile launch.
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