Canada and ballistic missile defence: an interception scenario.A new Working Paper by Project Ploughshares
This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. and The Simons Centre for Peace and Disarmament on Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence offers a detailed analysis of why BMD BMD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Bermudian Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. will not bring the protection it promises, why it will undermine international nonproliferation non·pro·lif·er·a·tion adj. Of, relating to, or calling for an end to the acquisition of nuclear weapons by additional nations: a nonproliferation treaty. and disarmament efforts, and why it is not integral to Canada-US security cooperation. The Working Paper includes the interception scenario that follows, to demonstrate how the system is supposed to work and why it probably won't. The Working Paper is available in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. format on the Ploughshares Web site (www.ploughshares.ca) and can be ordered in hard copy from the Ploughshares office. Why BMD? Why now?. 1. Canada is considering a role in BMD despite a well-established skepticism: Canadian policy has never identified ballistic missile defence (BMD) as a credible or even promising response to the threat of nuclear destruction via intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM ICBM: see guided missile. ICBM in full intercontinental ballistic missile Land-based, nuclear-armed ballistic missile with a range of more than 3,500 mi (5,600 km). Only the U.S. ). Even so, Canadian officials are currently engaged in extensive discussions with the United States on how ballistic missile defence (BMD) might protect Canadians and how Canada might link to the ground-based, mid-course interception, ballistic missile defence system Noun 1. missile defence system - naval weaponry providing a defense system missile defense system naval weaponry - weaponry for warships now being prepared for deployment by Washington. 2. Canada is being drawn into a BMD system that has no dear definition: As conceived by the current US Administration, BMD is not really amenable to clear definition since it remains an evolving concept based on technologies of varying degrees of maturity, or immaturity. The term BMD is thus broadly used to encompass virtually any technology, from weapons systems already deployed for theatre missile interceptions to theories about technologies that are still confined to scientific imagining, that might be applicable to intercepting |
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