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Article: U.S. anti-ballistic missile defense system a waste of money: expert
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 16, 2008
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U.S. anti-ballistic missile defense system a waste of money:
expert
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. anti-ballistic missile
defense system has resulted in a waste of hundreds of billions of
dollars, a former weapons tester said in a document released
Wednesday.
Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's assistant secretary for arms testing
from 1994 to 2001, said the missile defense system, which he
described as mostly useless, is the "most difficult development the
Pentagon has ever attempted."
In the past five years, the interception tests of the system were
"simpler and less realistic" than those conducted in the five
previous years, local media quoted Coyle as saying in ...