The Madness of THAAD
Category: POLITICS
Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) has not been demonstrated to work effectively. It pushes China and North Korea to spend more money on more missiles to overwhelm THAAD (just as the U.S. is moved to spend more money on missile upgrades to counteract the missile defense of other countries). And it is a poor substitute for arms-control negotiations.
By John Feffer, ContributorDirector, Foreign Policy In Focus and Editor, LobeLog; Author ..., 2015-05-24