S.D.I., N.M.D., mid-course, boost-phase. The United States desire to build a missile defense system has for years worried both ally and foe.
The current work-in-progress seems already outdated. And 18 years after Reagan's "rainbow" shield, there's still only one Star Wars, and it's a Lucas film. But while the U.S.S.R. as "Evil Empire" no longer looms, concerns over I.C.B.M.'s and terrorist attacks linger. National Missile Defense proponents say the government has a moral obligation to protect Americans from a missile attack. And now the Bush administration is signaling - 'damn the treaties, full speed ahead on Missile Defense.'
It could mean a return to an expensive arms race with Russia, China and others. Who is the enemy today, and could Missile Defense create new ones? And what ever happened to arms reductions and diplomacy to ensure the missiles never fly in the first place? (Hosted by Judy Swallow)
David Wright, an expert on National Missile Defense, Missile Proliferation, and North Korean Missile Technology
Retired General John Repert from the US Army, former attach?o Russia and now the executive director of the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Robert Pfaltzgraff a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and head of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
Paul Flynn - Labour Party member of the British Parliament
