To: Ilaine who wrote (3749 ) 1/29/2001 11:50:35 AM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (2) | Respond to Allegations that missile defense systems won't work have been made since the idea to make them was conceived - it's disinformation designed to bamboozle at least some of the population in the hope that they will oppose it, possibly causing the plans to be dropped, or at least delayed. gn.apc.org Theodore A. Postol, an arms expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who opposes the weapon. Postol, a professor of science and national security studies at MIT and the author of many private and federal weapon reports, was a top Navy science adviser in the Reagan administration and has studied the issue of enemy countermeasures to anti-missile weapons for decades. Nira Schwartz. A former senior engineer at the defense contractor TRW, Schwartz lost her job after challenging the claims the company was making about the weapon. Michael W. Munn, a retired scientist for the defense contractor Lockheed and a pioneer in designing and testing anti-missile weapons, said, ``The only way to make it work is to dumb it down. There's no other way to do it. Discrimination has always been the No. 1 problem, and it will always remain that way.''
