The Missile Threat and Plans for Ballistic Missiles Defense:
Technology, Strategic Stability and Impact on Global Security

organized by
Landau Network Centro Volta - LNCV
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

supported by
General Direction for Cultural Promotion and Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

with the cooperation of
Italian Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
Comitato di Parlamentari per l'Innovazione Tecnologica - COPIT
Società Italiana per la Organizzazione Internazionale - SIOI
Unione Scienziati per il Disarmo - USPID

Program of the Conference

Table of Contents
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Paolo Cotta-Ramusino & Maurizio Martellini	Preface
Umberto La Rocca	Welcoming Address
Mario B. Pensa	Opening Address
Vincenzo Camporini	An Italian's View on US Ballistic Missiles Defence Plans
Chun Yong-Taek	Missile Proliferation on the Korean Peninsula and Consequences of the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) Program
Joseph Cirincione	The Exaggerated Ballistic Missile Threat
Ralph A. Cossa	The Bush Presidency: Prospects for Sino-US Arms Control
Paolo Cotta-Ramusino & Maurizio Martellini	Deterrence, the ABM Treaty and the New Strategic Environment
Thérèse Delpech	Ballistic Missile Defense and Strategic Stability
Lucas Fisher	NMD Implications for the Global Order
Fu Cong	NMD Undermines World Security
Camille Grand	NMD and Arms Control: A European View
Gert G. Harigel	Remarks on the National Missile Defense
Heiner Horsten	The Implications of Ballistic Missile Defence for Arms Control and Disarmament
Karel Koster	The Offensive Use of Anti-Ballistic Missile Shields
Yuriy Kapralov	Effects of National Missile Defense on Arms Control and Strategic Stability
Ian R. Kenyon	Alternatives to NMD Systems: Arms Control
Kaoru Kikuyama	Ballistic Missile Defence and its Security Implication. Does Japan Need TMD?
Karel Koster	The Offensive Use of Anti-Ballistic Missile Shields
George Lewis	National Missile Defense Options and the Bush Administration
Steve Miller	Defenses Are Coming: the National Missile Defense Debate in the US
Götz Neuneck	The NMD Debate: Technology, Threats and Implications for International Security
Tariq Rauf	Canada's Perspectives on NMD
Vladimir Rybachenkov	Political and Diplomatic Means as a Real Alternative to NMD Deployment
Alexander G. Savelyev	NMD and the ABM Treaty: the Impact on Arms Control and Strategic Stability
Malcolm K. Savidge	Star Wars 2: Daydream or Nightmare?
Paul Schulte	Putting National Missile Defence Into Proportion
Shen Dingli	A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defence
Jean P. Stroot	Antimissile Defence: Schizophrenia or Irresponsibility?
Tatsujiro Suzuki	A Proposal for Tripartite Nuclear Weapon Free Zone In Korea and Japan: Possible Alternative for TMD?
Alexander E. Varshavsky	The Plans of NMD Deployment and Global Instability: Geoeconomic Aspects
David C. Wright	An Assessment of Ballistic Missile Threats
Roberto Zadra	On the Discussion on NMD in NATO
Uta Zapf	Discussion About National Missile Defence in Germany
	List of Participants