Space, Stability and Nuclear Strategy – Rethinking Missile Defense

June 23, 2010 at 4:08 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

Source: China Security

By Joan Johnson-Freese & Thomas Nichols in China Security #17, is a quarterly English-language policy journal.

US missile defense efforts have complicated foreign policy on several fronts—but particularly so in China, where the program is seen as a threat to the PRC’s nuclear deterrent. With missile defense now entrenched in American policymaking, the new question for skeptics is how to emphasize its positive aspects while minimizing the obvious consequences…more