Ballistic Missile Defense Organization

Airborne Boost-Phase Ballistic Missile Defense

Boost-phase ballistic missile defense is alluring because rocket boosters are easy to detect and track, they are relatively vulnerable due to the large axial loads on a missile under powered flight, the entire payload (single or multiple warheads and midcourse penetration aids) may be destroyed in a single shot, and countermeasures to defeat boostphase defense are more difficult to devise than ...

Viewpoint : China ’ S Concerns about Theater Missile Defense : a Critique

Dr. Arthur Ding is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University in Taipei. Dr. Ding received a doctoral degree in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 1987. His research covers Chinese military and security policy, US-China relations, and international relations in East Asia. His book, China’s Changing Militar...

The Growing Importance of Ballistic Missile Defense

The idea of ballistic missile defense (BMD) is not new. It originally emerged in the early years of the Cold War as part of the overall strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. The notion that ballistic missiles could be intercepted and destroyed in flight offered the prospect of a system of security based upon an “active defense” rather than the unnerving notion of...

Missile Proliferation in East Asia : Arms Control Vs . Tmd Responses

Dr. James Clay Moltz is Assistant Director and Research Professor at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has published widely on Russian Far Eastern and East Asian security issues. The rise of theater ballistic missile capabilities in East Asia—particularly in China and North Korea—has raised fears among the United States, South Korea, ...

Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Ballistic Missile Defense Adaptive Con - Trol Systems