Kadish: NMD Tests To Get Tougher Starting Early Next Year

By Thomas Duffy / August 15, 2001 at 5:00 AM
The head of the Pentagon's missile defense program office said today that he expects more sophisticated countermeasures will be added to tests of the national missile defense system early next year following an October test that will be a replay of one held last month. The July test ended with a successful intercept of a target ballistic missile. Critics of the NMD program have argued that the four tests held to date have been too simple and that sophisticated countermeasures...

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