US nuclear safety claim is a ‘dangerous fantasy’
“In April 2010, the US government adopted a new nuclear strategy [pdf] that depends on the conclusion that the current missile defense systems will reliably protect the continental United States in the extreme circumstances of nuclear-armed combat. Now research in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, shows that these defenses have not been tested against real-world threats and would not be effective in real combat conditions.” http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-11/spu-uns102810.php
The article [How US strategic antimissile defense could be made to work by George N. Lewis and Theodore A. Postol is published today (1st November, 2010) in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists issue 2010 66 (6); DOI: 10.1177/0096340210387503] will be freely available for a short time from http://bos.sagepub.com/content/current
