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Is the United States Trying to Aim Its National Missile Defense at China?

U.S. Missile Defense

Seminar - Open to the Public

Is the United States Trying to Aim Its National Missile Defense at China?

Wed., Dec. 14, 2016 | 10:00am - 11:30am

Littauer Building - Fainsod Room, 324

This talk will focus on the technical aspects of the THAAD missile defense system that are relevant to the domestic and foreign policy debates in South Korea and the United States over the deployment of this missile defense. It will be shown that the THAAD missile defense will be very susceptible to simple countermeasures that are well within the technical capacity of North Korea to implement.