Collection(s) : Les notes de l'IFRI
Paru le 06/12/2001 | Broché 95 pages
Public motivé
édition Institut français des relations internationales
Missile defense appears as a topic of intense international debate every ten years. This happened in the 1960s and 1970s prior to the signing of the ABM Treaty (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) ; in the 1980s with the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) ; and in the 1990s, following the Gulf War, with the GPALS project (Global Protection Against Limited Strikes). Today the NMD project (National Missile Defense) - re-designated MD (Missile Defense) or BMD (Ballistic Missile Defense) with the arrival of the Bush Administration - might well, unlike its forerunners, be progressively deployed. It could re-map strategic relations among the main world players, especially after the 11 September terrorist attacks.
Thérèse Delpech is director for strategic affairs at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), and UNMOVIC commissionner (the United Nations commission dealing with Iraq's disarmament. She is also member of the IISS Council, senior associate fellow at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI, FNSP), and international advisor to the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross).
Michael Nacht is dean of the Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy. He was before professor of public policy and dean of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. He served from 1994 until 1997 as assistant director for strategic and Eurasian affairs of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Washington D. C. He led the agency's work on nuclear arms reduction negociations with Russia and initiated nuclear arms control talks with China.
