Hilary Keenan

  • US 'missile defence': Be very, very afraid

    Deriding the likely technical efficacy of the USA’s ballistic National Missile Defense (NMD) system (a key element of which is already stationed in Britain at the Fylingdales radar base), Ming Campbell, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair on February 28: “Do you accept that the system proposed is largely untried, indeed it has been described as firing a bullet in order to hit a bullet?”