Event Fwd: Keep Space for Peace Week 2011

http://www.space4peace.org/actions/ksfpw11.htm

International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space

October 1 - 8 2011
No Missile Defense
Stop the Drones
Convert the Military Industrial Complex!
Bring Our War $$ Home

FOR MORE, CLICK HERE

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See also

Raytheon, Missile Offense & Endless War
The GN's 19th Annual Space Organizing Conference,
North Andover, Massachusetts, June 17-19 2011

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See also

2010 Keep Space for Peace Week 2010 우주 평화주
2009 Keep Space for Peace Week 2009 우주 평화주

Text Fwd: All missile defense programs are part of the same system

DMZ Hawai'i
All missile defense programs are part of the same system
August 26, 2011 by kyle

Bruce Gagnon posted a link to this article about the U.S. missile defense program. As he points out, the article explains how all missile defense systems are “part of the same network of systems.” The proposed South Korean naval base in Jeju island, where islanders are waging a fierce struggle to oppose the base, is part of this network. Hereʻs a pertinent section:


In congressional testimony, you’ve highlighted the need for interoperability of all U.S. and allied interceptors and supporting sensors. Is this a realistic requirement?

Absolutely, and we’re not going for interoperability that’s achieved after the fact, but rather full integration from the get-go. MDA designs and manages the entire ballistic missile defense architecture — whether homeland or regional missile defense — from a single set of requirements and specifications. So they’re not separate systems, but literally one holistic network built to operate as a single system. It took us 10 years to get to the point where we have one systems engineering process and one set of specifications writ large for the entire globe. This allows us to do all the trades and provide the most low-risk, cost-effective means of meeting all our missile defense requirements.

Great rhetoric, but how can this be translated into the holistic system you speak of?

A good example is the Aegis ashore system. We saw this great capability on ships and saw the need to replicate this capability on land. By looking down from the top, it was a simple decision to take those [SM-3 Block 2A] missiles off the ship and build land variants of the same Aegis system. And now we have a brand new capability that never existed before, with a worldwide logistics sustainment and training program in place that costs tremendously less than had we developed a land system from scratch.

And what about systems deployed by the Israelis and those planned for NATO countries, Japan and other partners. Will they all work as a single system in combat?

The international partner program is part and parcel of our mainstream program. They’re not considered as adjuncts to U.S. missile defense, but part of the same network of systems. So with NATO, Israel or Japan, they’re all working from the same specifications that take into account all the required interfaces. We have a set process for all our partners. We typically start with studies, then move to simulations and assist in calibrating country-specific requirements from the very beginning to fit into the overall system. Today, we’re working with over 20 countries for the collective benefit of us all.

But each country has its own operational, cost and industrial base considerations. How does it all pull together?

First of all, I want to emphasize that we don’t control another country’s system or how a country chooses to develop its systems. But we put in place up-front agreements that drive genuine partnerships for designing systems that can be readily integrated. With Israel, for example — our oldest partner with whom we have an extremely mature relationship — we’ve actually replicated an Israeli command-and-control center here in the United States and similar interconnected laboratories are planned with NATO and other partners. Together we conduct many simulation excursions, hundreds of different scenarios to optimize and continually improve upon the design.

So when you ask about how we can have confidence in combat? The answer is we practice it, we exercise it, we’re full partners in flight tests to the point that beyond basic sharing of data, the links are in place to operate as a unit when we have to face actual threats.

Text Fwd: Russia: US Missile Offense System Could Reach the Urals

* Text fwd from Bruce Gaganon on May 18, 2011

http://rt.com/politics/nato-missile-defense-medvedev/
Moscow may quit START over US deploying missile shield in Europe
May 16, 2011
Russia Today

Further deployment of the US missile defense system in Europe gives Russia the right to withdraw from the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said.

"START may become a hostage of the so-called US European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA)," Ryabkov said at Monday’s meeting of the Expert Council on cooperation between Russia and NATO at the State Duma.

The official noted that Moscow has repeatedly warned its partners that if the scale of the US missile defense system creates a threat to Russia’s strategic nuclear forces, Russia has the right to withdraw from the agreement. That would be considered “an exceptional circumstance” mentioned in Article 14 of the New START.

He added that Russia will have to take responsive measures if the US and NATO develop their missile defense shield without taking Moscow’s opinion into account.

"In this situation, we will have to take the necessary measures to restore the disrupted balance of power," Ryabkov said, cites Interfax.

The official also observed that Moscow is disappointed over Washington’s denial to give legal guarantees that the US missile defense system will not be targeted against Russia.

"We are disappointed with the reaction of Washington; this is a negative reaction," he said.
The historic agreement – the New START – was signed by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev on April 8, 2010, in Prague.

On Saturday, President Dmitry Medvedev sent letters to Russia-NATO Council members in which he reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to contribute to maintaining strategic stability and security by creating a joint missile defense system in Europe.

“The Lisbon summit of the Russia-NATO Council on November 20, 2010, opened up opportunities for building strategic partnership based on the principles of equality, indivisible security, mutual trust, transparency, and predictability," the president’s letter reads, the Kremlin press service reported on Saturday.

Medvedev confirmed Russia’s readiness – voiced at the summit – to take a share of responsibility for maintaining strategic stability and security, including through the creation of a joint missile defense system in Europe. He underlined that the system could only be truly efficient and viable if Russia participates in the project as an equal member. The Russian President stressed the need for guarantees that the shield being deployed in Europe will not undermine strategic stability and will not be aimed against one of the sides.

Almost half-a-year on after Moscow was officially invited to participate in the missile defense program, the sides have not managed to iron out differences in their views on the planned system.

Moscow said it was ready to assume protection of its sector in Europe from a missile threat in the framework of the so-called “sectoral” approach put forward by Medvedev. The general idea is that Europe would be divided into sectors and each side – Russia and the Western partners – would defend their sector of responsibility. Moscow has also warned that if no compromise is found on missile defense and the West ends up building its own shield, Russia would have no choice but to respond with military measures.

On May 4, at the meeting of commanders of the general staffs of the Russia-NATO Council 29 member states in Brussels, Russia’s General Nikolay Makarov said that Moscow would insist that the alliance would guarantee that its European missile defense would not pose a threat to Russia’s strategic nuclear forces.

"We intend to seek firm guarantees on de-targeting missile defense against Russia's nuclear potential. We will wait for proposals from NATO. We hope that our European colleagues will understand us", Makarov said. "We cannot create the security situation in Europe depending on the Russian-US agreements as it was during the Cold War times," he added, cited Itar-Tass.
The gathering took place shortly after the US announced its plans to deploy interceptor missiles in Romania, which raised serious concerns in Moscow.

Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Friday that the Brussels talks brought no breakthrough.

“We cannot watch indifferently as the US is deploying near our borders elements of its missile defense system, which can reach as far as the Urals,” he told journalists in Moscow. Russia is being told that its security would only benefit from it as Americans would be able to intercept missiles over the Russian territory. However, Moscow is not happy with such an approach as it can provide its national security itself, he added.


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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

Text Fwd: Russia may counter U.S. - Romanian missile shield deal

* Text fwd by Bruce Gagnon on May 5, 2011

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110504/163853797.html
Russia May Counter US-Romanian missile shield deal
May 4 (RIA Novosti)

Moscow: Romania and the United States should expect counter measures from Russia in response to a missile shield agreement, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Bucharest announced on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with the United States to deploy a U.S. missile interceptor system at a disused Soviet airbase on its territory.

"Military specialists in the United States, NATO and Romania should be absolutely aware that any measure entails counter-measures," said Konstantin Kosachev, who heads the foreign policy committee of State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament.
He said the counter measures would be used with the sole purpose of protecting Russia and would not be aimed at any particular state.

Moscow issued an urgent request on Tuesday for legal guarantees from the United States that its missile shield will not target Russia's strategic nuclear forces.

"My personal point of view is that the ideal scenario would be for the United States to issue legal guarantees, but the Americans are unlikely to do that," Kosachev said.

The head of the State Duma's defense committee, Viktor Zavarzin, said the U.S.-Romanian deal would have "a negative impact on inter-European relations and undermine the existing balance of forces and interests."

"And this, in turn, will provoke an unnecessary escalation of tensions," he added.
[Moscow is concerned that U.S. interceptors would have the capacity to target Russia’s long-range missiles once the missile shield is fully deployed by 2020 under Mr. Obama’s “phased adaptive approach” plan.]

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

Photos Fwd:[SPARK] [April 18 press interview] No SK participation in the US Missile Defense

http://spark946.org/bugsboard/index.php?BBS=s_news&action=viewForm&uid=2781&page=1
미 MD참가 수순 밟는 국방부 규탄 기자회견
한미 간 MD 공동연구 중단과 ‘한국형 MD’구축과 운용에 대한 약정서 폐기를 강력히 촉구한다!
2011년 4월 18일(월) 10시 국방부 정문(앞)



Press interview to denounce the Ministry of National Defense, ROK, that steps toward participation in the US MD
Stop the ROK-US joint research on the MD!
Abolish the agreement on the establishment and operation on the Korean Air and Missile Defense System!
In front of the Ministry of National Defense, 10am, April 18, 2011

Text Fwd: 19th Annual Space Organizing Conference - June 17-19

*Text fwd from Bruce Gagnon on April 10, 2011

19th Annual Space Organizing Conference - June 17-19
Raytheon, Missile Offense, and Endless War
June 17-19
North Andover, Massachusetts

Working together to demilitarize and create a sustainable future


2011 marks the 19th anniversary of Global Network’s organizing efforts to build an international constituency to Keep Space for Peace. Each year we gather to share the latest international developments on Pentagon and aerospace industry plans for the militarization of space. We approach this conference with clarity that U.S. “missile defense” programs are actually key elements in overall Pentagon first-strike planning. The Raytheon Company, which had 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a leading builder and promoter of the missile “offense” program. Headquartered in Massachusetts, Raytheon has a manufacturing plant in Andover that builds the Patriot (PAC-3) system that is now being used by the Pentagon to help encircle Russia and China.


Vigil: On Friday, June 17 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm a vigil will be held at the gates of the Raytheon production plant as the workers leave for home. Local activists have been holding vigils at the facility for years. (NW corner of Rt 133 and I-93 intersection)


Conference: Saturday, June 18 day-long conference with panel discussions and workshops held at Merrimack College. Key Global Network activists from around the world speaking about current U.S. and allies space weapons technology developments and strategies.


Concert: Tetsu Kitagawa, one of Japan's leading peace and justice singer/songwriters has been described as Japan's Bob Dylan -- early Dylan, the one engaged with people's movements. On tour in the U.S. as part of his 100 consecutive concerts for peace, nuclear abolition, and defense of Japan’s peace constitution, Kitagawa will be joined by Pat Scanlon and other musical friends for a concert on June 18 at 8:15 pm (North Parish Old Center Hall, North Andover). Open to the community, as well as to conference participants, tickets will be available at the conference and at the door for $10.


Cost: Registration for the conference is on a sliding scale. Please pay what you can best afford between $15 - $100. Registration fee includes three meals on June 17-18. (Suggested fee is $50 which covers our basic costs.)


Event Co-Sponsors: AFSC Disarmament Program; Alliance for Peace & Justice, Western Mass.; Essex Unitarian Universalist Church; House of Peace; Maine Campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home; Maine Veterans for Peace (VFP); Merrimack Valley People for Peace; New England Peace Pagoda; New Hampshire Peace Action; North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice; Office of Mission and Ministry, Merrimack College; Peace Action Maine; Salem Peace Committee; United for Justice with Peace (Greater Boston); Veterans for Peace Chapter 9 Smedley Butler Brigade; Veterans for Peace Chapter 45 Samantha Smith; War Resisters League New England


Get the full conference program, schedule and registration brochure at: http://www.space4peace.org/


Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)


Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

Text Fwd: U.S. confident on capability to intercept N. Korean missiles: Pentagon

Yonhap News
U.S. confident on capability to intercept N. Korean missiles: Pentagon
By Hwang Doo-hyong

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Yonhap) -- The United States has the capability to intercept ballistic missiles from North Korea, a senior U.S. official has said.

Patrick O'Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency, made the remarks at a House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday in response to a lawmaker who expressed "concerns about the ground-based midcourse defense system in Alaska and California," citing "back-to-back flight test failures this past year."

"We have two versions of the GMD missile. The first version is called capability enhancement No. 1 and it's the kill vehicle that has performed five times on flight, has done very well, three intercept attempts and it's intercepted three times," O'Reilly said, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon Friday.

Critics are skeptical of the effectiveness of the costly global missile defense systems, citing technological shortfalls and political ramifications, although Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other senior U.S. officials have expressed confidence in the U.S. capability to shoot down any ballistic missiles coming from North Korea.

"Those are flights out of -- the target out of Kodiak, Alaska, and the intercept out of Vandenberg (California)," O'Reilly said. "That roughly equates to the geometry of a launch out of North Korea and an intercept coming out of Fort Greely, Alaska. So for those type of scenarios and for that system, the CE-1, we remain to have confidence in the system based on the data we've seen."

The U.S. also "started a second version of the missile kill vehicle in 2005 based on obsolescence reasons; parts, manufacturers and so forth not producing parts anymore that -- and the electronic systems that we needed," he said. "We redesigned the system, upgraded it, and actually gave a greater sensitivity and greater capability. However, it failed on the first flight test due to a quality control problem. We corrected that quality control problem and in the second flight it didn't happen."

Due to budget constraints, the Obama administration in 2009 cut back a plan that would have increased the number of interceptors to 44 from 30, but administration officials insist 30 interceptors are enough to counter North Korea's missile capability "for some years to come."

Speaking at the hearing, Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, said that the U.S. has been improving the GMD system against "the threats that might emerge from states like North Korea and Iran to conduct limited strikes on the United States."

Gates said in January that North Korea's missiles and nuclear weapons will pose a threat to the U.S. within five years. Some experts say Pyongyang may have already developed nuclear warheads small enough for missile payloads.

Nuclear-armed North Korea has made a series of provocations in recent months, including the sinking of a South Korean warship and shelling of a border island that killed 50 people last year.

In November, Pyongyang also disclosed a uranium enrichment plant that could be used to make nuclear weapons apart from its plutonium program. The North claims its intention is to generate electricity.

hdh@yna.co.kr
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See also Korea Times
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/04/113_84352.html

Text Fwd: REMEMBERING PLOWSHARES ACTION 20 YEARS LATER

Organizing Notes
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2011/04/remembering-plowshares-action-20-years.html
Saturday, April 02, 2011
REMEMBERING PLOWSHARES ACTION 20 YEARS LATER

Before dawn on Easter March 31, 1991 Phil Berrigan, Daniel Sicken, Barry Roth, Tom Lewis, and Kathy Boylan boarded the USS Gettysburg, an Aegis destroyer that was docked at Bath Iron Works in Maine. They hammered and poured blood on the missile hatches. It became a huge story in Maine. The charges were dropped the day before they were set to go to trial.

On Friday, April 1 the surviving members (Daniel, Barry and Kathy) of the Aegis Plowshares held a 20th anniversary reunion vigil at BIW and then a pot luck supper at the Addams-Melman House in Bath. A severe snow storm that same day though hampered the turnout but still twenty hearty souls turned up for the vigil at the shipyard and the pot luck that followed. Then again this morning another vigil was held at the shipyard as the Saturday shift was getting out of work.

It was a wonderful reunion for the Aegis plowshares and their supporters.

The ships are outfitted with "missile defense" (MD) systems and are key components in the U.S first-strike attack system. Their job would be to knock out a given country's nuclear retaliatory forces after the initial U.S. attack.

One of these Aegis MD systems was used by the Pentagon to hit a falling U.S. military satellite in 2008 proving they also had the capability to serve as an anti-satellite weapon. Obama is now deploying these Aegis destroyers with their MD systems around Russia and China.

A very fine article about the reunion vigil appeared in our local newspaper yesterday. See it here

Text Fwd: [Hawai'i] Center boosts military communications

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Lt. Gen. Richard Formica, right front, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, was on hand yesterday for the dedication of the new Army Wideband Satellite Communications Operations Center at the Wahiawa Annex of Pearl Harbor. The center is one of three big communications projects the Pentagon has undertaken at the Wahiawa Annex in recent years.
DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
The large antenna dishes measure 60 feet in diameter.
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command dedicated its new Army Wideband Satellite Communications Operations Center during a ceremony yesterday at the Wahiawa Annex of Pearl Harbor. A tour was held during the ceremony, with one of the stops being inside a giant dome that houses one of the satellite dish receivers.
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* Text fwd from Kyle Kajihiro on Feb. 24, 2011

Star Advertizer
The Army facility is one of three big projects undertaken at the Pearl Harbor site recently
By William Cole
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 24, 2011

Estimates are that four years after the start of the Iraq War in 2003, U.S. government demand for satellite bandwidth jumped from 7 gigabits per second to 12 gigabits.

Military satellite use is increasing, from troops on the ground and unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, to ships at sea.

The Wahiawa Annex of Pearl Harbor near Whitmore Village -- where 60-foot-diameter antenna dishes have sprouted in recent years -- has become a major communications crossroads.

A new 28,244-square-foot, $25.3 million Army Wideband Satellite Communications Operations Center was dedicated yesterday at the annex, bringing a greater capability to manage the river of satellite information that passes through the facility.

The 55 soldiers with Company D of the 53rd Signal Battalion, five Australian service members who augment them, and 10 contractors oversee the communications payload.

The information is transmitted through the Defense Satellite Communications System and Wideband Global Satellite Communication network.

The new center replaces and improves on 1980s-era satellite control capability that before the Wahiawa Annex facility was completed was controlled from Camp Roberts in California.

"Now we're able to provide the combatant commander the capability to have real-time images to make those tough decisions on the battlefield," said Capt. Daniel Zisa, the Company D commander.

The Army's communications center is one of three big projects the Pentagon has undertaken at the annex in recent years.

The National Security Agency/Central Security Service has a new $318 million Hawaii Regional Operations Security Center on 70 acres.

A new $65 million operations center also was built for the Naval and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific at the annex, and filled with $92 million in electronics, officials said.

The facility was named the Dan Healy Building after a Pearl Harbor SEAL killed in Afghanistan in 2005.

A Navy official previously called the Wahiawa Annex the most strategic piece of land west of the Mississippi.

"I think what's happening is it's really solidifying its place in the overall communications structure within the United States," said Navy Capt. Patricia Cole, commander of NCTAMS.

Officials say there were about 700 military members and other workers at the Wahiawa facility around 2006-07, and there are expected to be 3,500 by 2013.

Gone from the annex is an old high-frequency antenna known as the "elephant cage" because of its circular shape and high latticework walls, officials said. The design allowed for signal direction-finding.

By 2008, General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies had completed installation of three 60-foot antennas on 53-foot-tall pedestals at the Wahiawa Annex as part of the Mobile User Objective System, a narrow-band satellite communications system. The MUOS antennas joined five already there that are between 40 and 60 feet in diameter, officials said.

The Army's new Wideband Satellite Communications Operations Center has a 38-foot antenna enclosed in a fiberglass geodesic dome.

Officials said Hawaii is a better site for the center than its former location at Camp Roberts in California because of Hawaii's closer location to one of the military's Wideband Global Satellites.

The high-capacity military communications satellite is in geosynchronous orbit at 22,300 miles altitude.

"We call it a look angle," said Master Sgt. Dean McClain, operations officer for the 53rd Signal Battalion.

The angle was low from Camp Roberts and had to look through a lot of space.

"To be physically underneath the satellite is the most advantageous as far as transmission power," he said.

The satellite covers the Pacific Rim and is one of three WGS satellites. Three others are expected to be sent into space in 2011 and 2012.

The military also uses nine older Defense Satellite Communications System satellites. Each WGS satellite has more than 10 times the capacity of the DSCS satellites, according to WGS maker Boeing.

The operations floor of the new Army facility has a very large flat-screen monitor on the wall and 10 individual stations with six computer monitors at each station.

Sgt. Joshua Quenga, 25, who's originally from Maui, takes requests for satellite access. He said he sometimes gets 15 requests at once, and often about 50 requests a day.

"It's busy," he said.

Lt. Gen. Richard Formica, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, said yesterday that the center dedication "represents an important milestone in our command's core task to provide trained and ready space and missile defense forces and capability to our combatant commanders and warfighters."

The Wahiawa Annex facility is being used as a model for similar improvements that will be made at satellite centers at Forts Detrick and Meade in Maryland and in Germany.
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See also
DMZ Hawai'i
Please don’t build your telescope on Mauna Kea, Mr. Moore
February 24, 2011

DMZ Hawai'i
Protect Mauna Kea
February 24, 2011

Event Fwd:Save the Date: Global Network Space Organizing Confab June 17-19

* Informed from Bruce Gagnon on Feb. 11, 2011

Save the Date: Global Network Space Organizing Confab June 17-19

Raytheon, Missile Offense, and Endless War
June 17-19
North Andover, Massachusetts

Working together to demilitarize and create a sustainable future

2011 marks the 19th anniversary of Global Network’s organizing efforts to build an international constituency to Keep Space for Peace. Each year we gather to share the latest international developments on Pentagon and aerospace industry plans for the militarization of space. We approach this conference with clarity that U.S. “missile defense” programs are actually key elements in overall Pentagon first-strike planning. The Raytheon Company, which had 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a leading builder and promoter of the missile “offense” program. Headquartered in Massachusetts, Raytheon has a manufacturing plant in Andover that builds the Patriot (PAC-3) system that is now being used by the Pentagon to help encircle Russia and China.


Vigil: On Friday, June 17 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm a vigil will be held at the gates of the Raytheon production plant as the workers leave for home. Local activists have been holding vigils at the facility for years. (NW corner of Rt 133 and I-93 intersection)

Conference: Saturday, June 18 day-long conference with panel discussions and workshops held at Merrimack College. Key Global Network activists from around the world speaking about current U.S. and allies space weapons technology developments and strategies.

Concert: Tetsu Kitagawa, one of Japan's leading peace and justice singer/songwriters has been described as Japan's Bob Dylan -- early Dylan, the one engaged with people's movements. On tour in the U.S. as part of his 100 consecutive concerts for peace, nuclear abolition, and defense of Japan’s peace constitution, Kitagawa will be joined by Pat Scanlon and other musical friends for a concert on June 18 at 8:15 pm (North Parish Old Center Hall, North Andover). Open to the community, as well as to conference participants, tickets will be available at the conference and at the door for $10.

Cost: Registration for the conference is on a sliding scale. Please pay what you can best afford between $15 - $100. Registration fee includes three meals on June 17-18. (Suggested fee is $50 which covers our basic costs.)

Event Co-Sponsors: AFSC Disarmament Program; Alliance for Peace & Justice, Western Mass.; Essex Unitarian Universalist Church; House of Peace; Maine Campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home; Maine Veterans for Peace (VFP); Merrimack Valley People for Peace; New England Peace Pagoda; New Hampshire Peace Action; North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice; Office of Mission and Ministry, Merrimack College; Peace Action Maine; Salem Peace Committee; United for Justice with Peace (Greater Boston); Veterans for Peace Chapter 9 Smedley Butler Brigade; Veterans for Peace Chapter 45 Samantha Smith; War Resisters League New England

Get the full conference program, schedule and registration brochure at: http://www.space4peace.org/

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)


Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

Text Fwd: NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile Shield Project

Stop NATO blog
February 5, 2011
NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile Shield Project
Rick Rozoff

On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan administration for a Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars.

In what will be the culmination of five years of extensive planning by the U.S. and NATO to construct an impenetrable interceptor missile shield to cover the European continent, the military bloc announced on the above date that it had handed over the first-ever theater ballistic missile defence capability to NATO military commanders at the NATO Combined Air Operations Centre in the German city of Uedem, which occurred "after NATO technicians computer-tested a software system linking anti-missile equipment from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United States." [1]

Italian Air Force Brigadier General Alessandro Pera, head of the NATO Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) Programme Office, delivered the plan to NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio Bisogniero while the second day of a NATO Military Committee meeting at the Atlantic Alliance headquarters in Brussels with chiefs of defense staff and other military representatives from 66 countries was underway.

Those also present in Germany included U.S. Air Force Major General Mark Ramsay, deputy chief of staff for Operations and Intelligence at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO's main European command) and other military and civilian authorities from the Alliance and Germany. General Mark Welsh III, commander of Allied Air Command Ramstein, paid his first visit to the NATO Combined Air Operations Centre to coincide with the capability demonstration of the ALTBMD program. Brigadier General Pera "handed over a symbolic key to the operational user of the capability," represented by Major General Ramsay. [2]

This year the Pentagon will begin its announced ten-year Phased Adaptive Approach (sometimes with a comma between the first two words) project to deploy medium- and intermediate-range interceptor missiles on ships in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Sea, which will be followed by the stationing of no fewer than 48 advanced Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors in Eastern Europe: 24 each in Romania and Poland.

The SM-3 is a ship-based missile jointly developed by the U.S. and Japan which will be deployed on Aegis class guided missile destroyers and cruisers in the two above-mentioned seas. A land-based version of the missile (Aegis Ashore) will be deployed near the Baltic and Black Seas in Poland and Romania.

Missile radar sites will accompany the interceptors, with potential sites discussed to date including Bulgaria, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Azerbaijan and Georgia in addition to the X-band radar (AN/TPY-2 Transportable Radar Surveillance/Forward Based X-band Transportable) designed for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system, with a range of 2,900 miles, deployed to the Negev Desert in Israel in 2008, manned by over 100 U.S. military personnel including a representative of the Missile Defense Agency. [3] The Azerbaijani location would be the early warning radar facility at Gabala currently operated by the Russian Space Forces.

This week four U.S. senators endorsed the placement of an interceptor missile radar facility in Georgia, which fought a five-day war with Russia in August 2008.

Last May the U.S. deployed the first interceptors in Europe, a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 battery in the Polish city of Morag, 35-40 miles from the Russian Kaliningrad district. An estimated 150 American troops arrived with the missiles to service and train Polish service members to operate them.

Until 2005 the U.S. had concentrated its missile shield initiatives further east: In Alaska, including its Aleutian Islands chain, and Japan, with preliminary radar facilities in Greenland, Britain and Norway to the west. The Missile Defense Agency's 280-foot-high Sea-Based X-Band Radar, which displaces 50,000 tons and has a surface as large as two football fields, is based in Adak in the Aleutian Islands near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

Developments took a dramatic turn in that year, however. On March 11 NATO’s North Atlantic Council, its highest civilian governing body, approved plans for a theater missile defense (TMD) system to protect deployed troops. The military bloc at that time had forces on the ground in Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Six years ago NATO envisioned a combination of the U.S.-German-Italian Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), Patriot Advanced Capability-3 and Surface Air Moyenne Portée/Terre systems as the foundation for lower-tier - battlefield or theater - components of its interceptor missile program, with U.S. Theater (now Terminal) High Altitude Area Defense and the then-current sea-based Standard Missile-2 systems serving as the upper-layer complements. [4]

The integrated system was to achieve initial operating capability last year - when NATO's 28 members unanimously authorized a far wider-ranging missile shield at the Alliance's summit in Portugal in November - and full operating capability in 2013.

To that end NATO's Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) program was established in September 2005 after a seven-year feasibility study had been conducted by eight of the bloc's leading members and in which "various NATO projects cooperatively participated." [5]

At that time the ALTBMD project was described in part as an "integrated system-of-systems architecture [that] will create a larger range of detection, communication and missile defence capabilities for NATO forces, whether deployed within or beyond NATO’s area of responsibility. It will also provide complete coverage against the threat posed by tactical ballistic missiles with ranges up to 3,000 kilometres. [6]

The U.S. arms manufacturers Boeing and Northrop Grumman announced intentions in the same month to bid on "systems engineering and integration work on NATO’s Theater Missile Defense capability." [7]

At almost exactly the same time, in November of 2005, Agence France-Presse disclosed that the U.S. was developing a complementary and more advanced interceptor missile program for Europe. Eastern Europe.

Citing a senior, unnamed, Pentagon official, the press service stated that although discussions had been held "below the radar screen" since 2002, "the US government was now nearing the point of making decisions on whether and how to go forward with such an initiative."

The Defense Department source was quoted as stating: "There have been a handful of countries, Poland is one, but there are several others with whom we've been having discussions with." [8]

A week earlier the Gazeta Wyborcza had revealed the plans to base American interceptor missiles in Poland. Four years later the same newspaper divulged weeks ahead of the event that Washington was shifting its plans for ten ground-based interceptors in Poland and a missile radar base in the Czech Republic - because of their impracticability, their ineffectiveness - to what on September 17, 2009 President Barack Obama termed a "smarter, stronger, and swifter" missile shield system that would include components from the Baltic to the Black to the Mediterranean Seas. [9]

The U.S. official quoted above would not divulge which other countries would be involved in the system as planned at the time, but confirmed that the deployment in Poland would be comparable to those at Fort Greely, Alaska where the Missile Defense Agency is working on completing the construction of as many as 14 silos with 30-40 long-range ground-based interceptors as part of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense element of America's global missile shield plans.

That was the strategy pursued by the George W. Bush administration but superseded by its successor in 2009.

In adopting a continent-wide interceptor missile program as part of its new Strategic Concept last November, NATO agreed to subordinate its 26 members and 14 partners (17 if the South Caucasus is included) in Europe to a U.S.-dominated missile system that is not limited to the continent but is an integral part of a global layered and integrated missile shield network.

The Lisbon summit declaration of November 20 affirms that "We have adopted a new Strategic Concept [and] decided to develop a missile defence capability to protect all NATO European populations, territory and forces...."

"Our Strategic Concept underscores our commitment to ensuring that NATO has the full range of capabilities necessary to deter and defend against any threat to the safety of our populations and the security of our territory. To that end, NATO will maintain an appropriate mix of conventional, nuclear, and missile defence forces. Missile defence will become an integral part of our overall defence posture...."

"[W]e have decided that the Alliance will develop a missile defence capability to pursue its core task of collective defence. The aim of a NATO missile defence capability is to provide full coverage and protection for all NATO European populations, territory and forces against the increasing threats posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles, based on the principles of the indivisibility of Allied security and NATO solidarity...."

"To this end, we have decided that the scope of NATO’s current Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) programme’s command, control and communications capabilities will be expanded beyond the protection of NATO deployed forces to also protect NATO European populations, territory and forces. In this context, the United States European Phased Adaptive Approach is welcomed as a valuable national contribution to the NATO missile defence architecture, as are other possible voluntary contributions by Allies. We have tasked the Council to develop missile defence consultation, command and control arrangements by the time of the March 2011 meeting of our Defence Ministers. We have also tasked the Council to draft an action plan addressing steps to implement the missile defence capability by the time of the June 2011 Defence Ministers’ meeting." [10]

A sop was thrown to Russia, which with the best of reasons had been suspicious of American and NATO interceptor missile plans since their inception, with the summit statement claiming that NATO had "invited Russia to cooperate with us."



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Text Fwd: Japan To Open Interceptor Missile Command On U.S. Base In Spring

* Text informed by Rick Rozoff on Feb. 2, 2011

Stars and Stripes
February 2, 2011
Japanese Air Defense Command center set to open on Yokota this spring
By Charlie Reed


YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan: As construction of Japan’s new Air Defense Command headquarters nears completion, officials here are still working out exactly how U.S. and Japanese troops will share the base.

The ADC will begin operations on Yokota by the end of March, and all 800 Japanese troops associated with the command will be on base by the end of the year, Yokota officials said.

Along with a 1.3 million square-foot operations center, the Japanese are also building a dormitory for about 200 single enlisted troops who will live on base, a dining facility, a Japanese military exchange store, an auditorium and other support facilities for the ADC, which is transferring from Japan’s nearby Fuchu air base in metropolitan Tokyo.

The ADC commander and vice commander along with four other general officers and their families will also reside at Yokota, home to U.S. Forces Japan headquarters and 5th Air Force. U.S. and Japanese officials could not provide figures for how many dependents will accompany the 800 Japanese troops and civilian employees assigned to the ADC.
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A headquarters command, the ADC controls air operations and missile defense for all of Japan and coordinates air support for Japan’s naval and ground forces.

The project, which broke ground three years ago, has been touted most for enhancing U.S.-Japan cooperation on missile defense.
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The U.S. and Japan began partnering on missile defense in the wake of North Korea’s 1998 missile test over Japan. In December, Japan announced plans to further expand its anti-missile system as part of a new “dynamic” defense policy.

The relocation is “necessary to share useful information between the U.S. and Japan,” a spokesman for Japan’s Ministry of Defense said this week.

Text Fwd: N. Korean Army watcher in Colorado expects busy 2011

Parading North Korean troops during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the country's ruling Workers' Party in October last year. The large portrait hanging on a building in the background is the country's late founding president, Kim Il-Sung.(Yonhap)

Joseph Bermudez, possibly one of the world's top non-Korean experts on North Korea's military. Although North Korea's 1.2-million-strong military is ill-fed, ill-equipped, its troops are amazingly well disciplined, he says.
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Yonhap News
2011/01/17 09:00 KST
(Yonhap Feature) N. Korean Army watcher in Colorado expects busy 2011

By Andrew Salmon
Contributing Writer

SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- Such is the Korean Peninsula's global profile that there are overseas experts on all aspects of Korea, from politics to literature, from martial arts to cuisine.

In the mountains of the U.S. state of Colorado, one man has carved a particularly arcane niche: Joseph Bermudez, 56, is possibly the world's top non-Korean expert on the North Korean People's Army, or KPA, which ranks as the world's fifth largest with 1.1 million soldiers.

An analyst for prestigious defense publisher Janes, founder of the KPA Journal and author of books on North Korean special forces and ballistic missiles, Bermudez is a consultant for government agencies in the United States and worldwide on Kim Jong-il's military machine.

So how did a native of middle America become a specialist on the KPA?

"I always had an interest in military history and became friends with a group of people who were military history enthusiasts,”Bermudez said in a telephone interview. "One day, one of those friends who was in government called up and said, 'A major who is being sent to Korea needs some help with a project.'"

As a defense analyst, Bermudez's early specialization was the Middle East and ballistic missiles; the suggested project was an overview of the KPA. However, he was able to assist the major, and he has never looked back.

"Anyone who does anything for more than 25 years gets quite good at it, I assume," he said, adding that he now has a wealth of sources on tap.

"I read everything publicly available and have amassed a large collection of declassified intelligence documents," he said. "I have had an even greater opportunity to meet with officials from around the world concerning the subject and have spoken to North Korean defectors."

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Currently, he is working on histories of North Korean intelligence operations and of the KPA in the Korean War, while updating his work on KPA special forces. He expects to be in Korea in 2011.

"I come to South Korea about once a year," he said. "But I haven't been to the North. I've heard they don't appreciate me much."

Text Fwd: Clinton urges China to vigorously implement sanctions on N. Korea

Yonhap News
Clinton urges China to vigorously implement sanctions on N. Korea
2011/01/15 02:04 KST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on China Friday to faithfully implement sanctions on North Korea, imposed by U.N. resolutions, for the North's nuclear and missile tests in the past years.

In a speech at the State Department ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit here early next week, Clinton said, "Until North Korea demonstrates in concrete ways its intention to keep its commitments, China, along with the international community, must vigorously enforce the sanctions adopted by the Security Council last year."

North Korea will be among major topics when U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Hu for a summit meeting and a state dinner Wednesday, U.S. officials have said, in what is being called the most crucial Sino-U.S. summit in decades due to China's emergence as an economic and military power that will challenge U.S. supremacy.

Other issues high on the agenda include the revaluation of China's yuan currency, human rights, Iran's nuclear ambitions and improving bilateral ties.

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Seoul and Washington insist that Pyongyang apologize for the provocations before any resumption of bilateral or multilateral talks.

"We are building momentum in support of North-South dialogue that respects the legitimate concerns of our South Korean ally and that can set the stage for meaningful talks on implementing North Korea's 2005 commitment to irreversibly end its nuclear program," Clinton said.
China, the North's staunchest ally, has called for an early, unconditional resumption of the six-party talks.

Clinton also expressed concerns over North Korea's nuclear and missile capabilities.

"North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs are becoming a direct threat to the United States itself," she said. "So this is not just about peace and stability in Northeast Asia, nor standing with our allies; this is becoming, unfortunately, more of a national security challenge to our own shores."

She was echoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said in Beijing Tuesday that North Korea's missiles and nuclear weapons will pose a threat to the U.S. within five years. Gates also urged North Korea to impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile testing to help revive the six-party nuclear talks.

The chief U.S. defense official met with South Korean officials in Seoul earlier Friday in the third and last leg of his three-nation tour of Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul.

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Photos Fwd: [SPARK] Stop the Military Oppression against North Korea! Immediately enter the peace talks!

* Image description comes later
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평화와 통일을 여는 사람들 로버트 게이츠 미국 국방장관 방한 대응 기자회견문
: 대북 군사적 압박 중단하고 평화협정 협상에 즉각 나서라!
(* To see the Korean language statement, click above)
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* All the image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea, Jan. 14, 2011

Press interview upon the visit by Robert Gates, Defense Secretary of the United States
:Stop the Military Oppression against North Korea! Immediately Enter the Peace talks!
In front of Ministry of National Defense, 1pm, Jan, 14, 2011

로버트 게이츠 미국 국방장관 방한 대응 기자회견
대북 군사적 압박 중단하고 평화협정 협상에 즉각 나서라!
- 2011년 1월 14일 오후 1시, 국방부 정문 앞 -

Go Back! Gates who continues military oppression against North Korea!

One of the signs reads:
We denounce ROK-US authorities that drive for Missile Defense, under the pretext of threat from North Korea!

“It seems that the mention of ‘necessary measure to protect the United States’ that the US government authority figures said contains the U.S. oppression with which she would enter for the establishment of MD, along with ROK and Japan, targeting China, in case China does not make pressure North Korea. That shows how the U.S. is abusing the intense situation of Korean peninsula in building blockage against China, not only against North Korea." (part transaltion from the SPARK statment)

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See also
Yonhap News
Lee reminds Gates of urgency for denuclearizing N. Korea
2011/01/14 17:19 KST

Text Fwd: Gates, ministers agree on deepening alliance

* Text from Corazon Valdez Fabros on Jan. 14, 2011

The Yomiuri Shimbun
Gates, ministers agree on deepening alliance
Jan. 14, 2011


Prime Minister Naoto Kan and other Japanese leaders agreed Thursday with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the two countries will work together to deepen their alliance.

Gates met separately with Kan, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara in the morning.

Given the increasingly uncertain situation on the Korean Peninsula as a result of North Korea's nuclear development program and its shelling of a South Korean island, they also reaffirmed the significance of U.S. forces' presence in the Asia-Pacific region and of defense cooperation between Japan, South Korea and the United States.

In addition, they agreed to work to strengthen the bilateral alliance by the time Kan is scheduled to visit the United States in spring.

"We'd like to make progress toward deepening the Japan-U.S. alliance," Kan told Gates at the start of their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office.

In response, Gates said he was looking forward to discussing what must be done to further solidify the two countries' ties.

In the meetings between Gates and the Japanese ministers, the two countries confirmed their policy of promoting the Japan-U.S. agreement in May over the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture.

However, when it came to reducing the burden on Okinawa Prefecture of hosting U.S. military facilities, Gates stopped short of making any pledges.

When Maehara sought U.S. cooperation in resolving the issue, Gates replied that the matter was closely linked with the relocation of Futenma and that steps would be taken in line with progress on that point, according to government officials.

As a specific measure to reduce the burden on Okinawa, Kitazawa asked Gates to promote negotiations on a plan to move some training functions of F-15 fighters stationed at Kadena Air Base in the prefecture to the U.S. territory of Guam, the officials said.

After their meeting, Kitazawa and Gates held a joint press conference at the Defense Ministry, in which Gates indicated the United States would observe the development of negotiations between the central government and the Okinawa prefectural government.

They said the two countries had agreed on the importance of enhancing cooperation between Japan, South Korea and the United States in dealing with North Korea.

Gates sought cooperation from Japan on the provision to third countries of the Standard Missile-3 Block 2A, a next-generation sea-based missile interceptor jointly developed by Japan and the United States.

"It makes economic sense to make it available to others," Gates said.

Kitazawa said the government hopes to make a decision by the end of the year.

Text Fwd: Gates: U.S. Troops, Missiles In Japan Needed Against China, N. Korea

* Texts sent by Rick Rozoff on Jan. 14, 2011

Stars and Stripes
January 13, 2011
Gates: U.S. troops needed in Japan to keep China, North Korea in check
By Kevin Baron

-In a sweeping assessment of the U.S.-Japan security stance, Gates said the two countries require “more effective” missile defense capabilities. He praised the existing system as “one of the most advanced of its kind in the world,” and hailed the advanced SM-3 interceptor’s ability to thwart a North Korean attack. Both countries will continue to share missile defense commands at Yokota Air Base.



TOKYO: The U.S. needs troops in Japan for the long term to keep China’s rising power in check and contain North Korea’s aggressive nuclear and missile aspirations, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said....

“On account of the scope, complexity and lethality of these challenges, I would argue that our alliance is more necessary, more relevant and more important than ever,” Gates said Friday in a keynote speech at Tokyo’s Keio University.

Without U.S. armed forces in Japan, Gates said North Korea’s military provocations could be “even more outrageous,” China might act more aggressively, disaster assistance would take longer, joint exercises would be harder to execute and the U.S. would have less intelligence on the region.

In a sweeping assessment of the U.S.-Japan security stance, Gates said the two countries require “more effective” missile defense capabilities. He praised the existing system as “one of the most advanced of its kind in the world,” and hailed the advanced SM-3 interceptor’s ability to thwart a North Korean attack. Both countries will continue to share missile defense commands at Yokota Air Base.

Gates made clear that the U.S. intends to move forward with Futenma relocation according to the newly agreed plan adopted last year, although he took a softer tone in remarks Thursday and at the defense ministry. That marked a change from past visits in which Gates had pressed Japan to get on with the move.

[He]warned that Chinese advances in cyber and anti-satellite warfare pose “a potential challenge” to U.S. military’s Pacific operations and communications “in ways that could inflict enormous damage to advanced, networked militaries and societies. Fortunately, the U.S. and Japan maintain a qualitative edge in satellite and computer technology.”
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Speaking a week after introducing Pentagon plans to reduce the size of the U.S. military and pull back on costly weapons buys, Gates said Japan will need to take on more of its security responsibilities.

“In the United States, we are engaged in a robust debate about the size, composition and cost of our military,” Gates said. “... We will continue to maintain the military strength necessary to protect our interests, defend our allies and deter potential adversaries from acts of aggression and intimidation. To do this we need a committed and capable security partner in Japan.”

Gates praised Japan’s recent agreement to stand “shoulder-to-shoulder” with South Korea, saying their increased military activities around the world are a key rationale for recommending Japan join the United Nations Security Council.

For now, regional security remains wholly dependent on the U.S.

Yet as Gates openly advocates for negotiations with North Korea, he sounded clearly pessimistic heading to Seoul.

“Despite the hopes and best efforts of the South Korean government, the U.S. and our allies, and the international community,” he said, “the character and priorities of the North Korean regime have sadly not changed.”

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Gates: Japan Must Take Larger Military Role In Asia, Against China
Los Angeles Times
January 13, 2011
Japan must take broader military role in East Asia, Gates says
:The U.S. and Japan need to broaden their military alliance to deal with any threats from North Korea and China, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says. U.S. bases in Japan are a valuable deterrent, he says.
By David S. Cloud


General: U.S. Ready To "Demolish" North Korean Missile Sites
Arirang News
January 14, 2011
US Preparing to Strike N. Korea If ICBM Threats Increase
Choi You-sun


U.S., Japanese Defense Chiefs Plan Transfer Of Interceptor Missiles
Japan Times
January 14, 2011
Kitazawa, Gates to speed talks on SM-3
By MASAMI ITO

[국문 번역]Text Fwd: Raytheon's Andover Facility Named IndustryWeek 'Best Plant' 레이시온의 안도버 시설, 산업 주간의 ‘가장 좋은 공장’으로 선정됨

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번역 배경: 미국에서 네번째로 큰 무기 생산/판매 회사인 레이시온은 평택, 군산등, 그리고 일본의 약 12군데들에 이미 설치되어 있는 PAC-3 를 생산하며 현재 일본과 SM-3를 공동 개발하고 있습니다. 우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크는 2011년 6월 메사추세츠 안도버에서 연간 회담을 갖는데 아래 번역된 기사는 바로 그 레이시온 사이트에 회사의 홍보선전용으로 올려진 것으로 보입니다. 기사에서 레이시온의 실체를 다 볼 수는 없으나 패트리어트 [PAC-3] 항공및 미사일 방어 시스템을 개발하는 레이시온의 야망을 엿보는데 도움이 됩니다. 레이시온은 우리 나라의 미사일 방어 시스템과도 깊은 관련이 있으므로 연구해야 할 무기 회사의 하나로 생각합니다. 제 자신 짧은 지식이나 같이 공유합니다. 비디오는 꼭 보시길 추천합니다.
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Video: Raytheon-Patriot Air And Missile Defense System (PAC-3) Simulation
비디오: 레이시온의 패트리어트 항공 미사일 시스템 (PAC -3시뮬레이션)



* Video from Bruce Gagnon blog, 'Empire of Island Bases' on Jan. 10, 2011
비디오 출처: 브루스 개그논의 2011년 1월 10일, '섬 기지들의 제국' 블로그로부터

* Image source: Google (World News)
미국 메사추세츠주 안도버의 레이시온 합동 방어 시스템 공장

* Image source: Google (Raytheon9)

'On 11 June 2008, by a unanimous verdict of the jury, the Raytheon 9 were found not guilty of three counts of criminal damage at the Raytheon offices, Derry Northern Ireland on 9 August 2006.'
'2008년 6월 11일, 배심원 만장 일치 평결로 레이시온 아홉명은 레이시온 사무실들에서의 범죄적 손상이란 세 죄목에서 무죄로 결정되었다. 북아일랜드 데리, 2006년 8월 9일'
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* Text sent from Bruce Gagnon on Jan. 11, 2011with the words:
* 2011년 1월11일, 브루스 개그논으로부터 아래 전언과 함께

Please share with others locally
지역에서 많은 사람들과 공유해주십시오.

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www.raytheon.com 레이시온 기업 사이트 출처(클릭)

Raytheon's Andover Facility Named IndustryWeek 'Best Plant'

레이시온의 안도버 시설, 산업 주간의 ‘가장 좋은 공장’으로 선정됨

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IndustryWeek magazine has named Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Integrated Air Defense Center in Andover, Mass., one of its "Best Plants" for 2010.

메사추세츠 주 튜크스버리로부터: 2011년 1월 6일/PR 뉴스 와이어/ --산업 주간(IndustryWeek) 잡지는 메사츠세추 주 안도버의 레이시온 회사 (NYSE: RTN)의 통합 항공 방어 센터(Integrated Air Defense Center) 를 2010년 “가장 좋은 공장들의 하나로 선정했다.

The annual competition evaluates manufacturing facilities in multiple categories, including quality, on-time delivery, worker safety and focus on continuous improvement, which will increase competitiveness and customer satisfaction.

연간 경쟁은 질, 정시 배달, 노동자 안정, 그리고 지속되는 개선을 포한, 많은 카테고리들에서 제조 시설들을 평가하는데 이것은 경쟁과 고객 만족을 증가시킬 것이다.

"Continuous improvement is an on-going journey for us," said Dan Ryan, vice president of Operations and Integrated Supply Chain at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. "Our philosophy is everybody, everyday – ideas from across all areas of the operation are essential for us to continue to increase our efficiency and capacity while maintaining our quality."

레이시온 합동 방어 시스템 Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems 내 작전 및 일괄 공급 체인의 부회장 댄 리안은 “계속적인 개선은 우리로선 지속되는 여행이다,” 라고 말했다. “우리의 철학은 작전의 모든 영역들에서 개개인, 일상의 아이디어들이, 우리가 질을 유지하는 한편, 효율성과 능력을 증대시키는데 있어 필수적이라는 것이다.”

Since 2007, the Integrated Air Defense Center has achieved a 6 percent year-over-year increase in productivity and a reduction of manufacturing floor space requirements of 45,000 square feet. One of the center's largest programs is the Patriot [PAC-3] Air and Missile Defense System. In the past two years, it has had a 100 percent on-time delivery and no-customer rejections since 2005. Approximately 4,500 people work at the facility.

2007년이후 통합 항공 방어 센터는 매년 6%의 생산성과 제조 현장에서 필요한 4만 5천 스퀘어 피트 공간을 축소하는 성과를 이룩해냈다. 센터의 가장 큰 프로그램들의 하나는 패트라어트 [PAC-3] 항공및 미사일 방어 시스템이다. 지난 2년간, 그것은 100% 정시 배달이었으며 2005년 이후로는 고객의 거절이 한번도 없었다. 대략 4천5백 여명이 그 시설에서 일한다.

Raytheon Company, with 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 88 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 75,000 people worldwide.

2009년만 250억 달러치를 팔았던 레이시온 회사는 전 세계 방어, 국토 안보, 그 외 정부주도 시장들 부문에서 전문성을 지니고 기술과 혁신을 이끌고 있다. 레이시온은 88년동안 그 혁신적 역사와 함께, 최첨단 전자, 임무 시스템 통합, 그리고 감지, 효과, 명령-통제-통신-정보 시스템의 영역들에서 그 외 능력들을 제공하는 것과 함께 넓은 범위에 걸쳐 임무 지원 업무들을 한다. 메사츠세츠 월텀에 본부가 있는 레이시온은 전 세계에서 7만 5천여명을 고용한다.


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* Search result on the Korea-related articles from the Raytheon site
레이시온 기업 사이트에서 한국 관련 검색 결과: 아래 링크들 클릭

Raytheon + Korea
레이시온 + 한국

Raytheon
10/21/2009
Raytheon Innovation Supports Korea’s Future Technology Requirements (* Seoul Air Show)
2009년 10월 21일
레이시온의 혁신, 한국 미래 기술 충족을 지지(* 서울 에어 쇼)

Raytheon
March 3, 2008
South Korea Chooses Raytheon's Patriot for Air and Missile Defense Capability Upgrade(*News Release)
2008년 3월 3일
남한, 레이시온의 패트리어트 항공및 미사일 방어 능력 업그레이드 선택(* 보도문)

[국문 번역]Text Fwd: Japan To Move Interceptor Missile Command Post To U.S. Base 일본 자위대 미사일사령부, 미군 공군 기지로 옮김

* Text sent from Rick Rozoff on Jan. 6, 2011

Kuwait News Agency쿠웨이크 뉴스 에이전시
January 6, 2011
2011년 1월 6일

Japan to move SDF missile command post to US airbase
일본 자위대 미사일사령부, 미군 공군 기지로 옮김

Kuwait: Japan will move the command post for its missile defense system from a Self-Defense Force facility to a US airbase this year.

쿠웨이트: 일본은 올해, 그 미사일 방어 시스템 사령부를 자위대 시설로부터 미 공군 기지로 옮길 것이다.

Japan's Defense Ministry said the plan will boost the county's defense capabilities, said Japan Broadcasting Corporation, monitored here, on Thursday.

목요일 이곳 [쿠웨이트]에서 모니터된 일본 방송 회사는 일본 관방부가 그 계획이 국가의 방어 능력들을 추진시킬 것이라 말했다고 전했다.

It said the plan will see the Air Self-Defense Force Command in Fuchu, Tokyo move into the compound of the US Yokota airbase in the same city.

그 방송은 그 계획이 토쿄 후추에 있는 공군 자위 사령부가 같은 시 미 요코스카 공군 기지 단지로 옮겨지는 것을 볼거라 말했다.

The shift will begin in March and is expected to be complete within the year, it added.

그 방송은 그 변화가 3월에 시작될 것이며 올해 안에 끝날 것이라고 덧붙였다.

The ministry said the move will help the Self Defense Force improve its speed of detection and response to incoming missiles identified by US early-warning satellites, it noted.

관방부는 그 이동이 미국 조기 경보 위성들에 의해 파악되는 도입 미사일들에 대한 탐지와 대응의 속도를 개선하는데 도움이 될 것이라 말했다.

The ministry also says it plans to spend about 240 million dollars buying ground-based PAC-3 interceptor missiles and deploying them at a SDF base in Okinawa Prefecture, for the first time this year, it added.

관방부는 또한 2.4억 달러치 지대 PAC-3 요격 미사일들을 사서 올해 처음으로 오키나와 자위대 에 배치할 계획이라 덧붙였다.

The ministry is considering deploying the PAC-3 missile system to northern Japan, Hokkaido and Tohoku, but the details of that plan have not been decided, it pointed out.

방송은 관방부가 일본 북부, 홋카이도, 토호쿠에 PAC-3 미사일 시스템을 배치할 것을 고려하고 있으나 계획의 구체적인 세부들은 결정되지 않았다고 지적했다.

Text Fwd: China: Japanese Interceptor Missiles To Threaten Regional Stability

* Text sent from Rick Rozoff on Dec. 21, 2010

Global Security Newswire
Japanese Missile Defenses Could Prompt Arms Buildup, China Warns
December 21, 2010

A Chinese diplomat suggested Japan's plan to deploy additional missile defense equipment could threaten strategic stability in Asia and prompt an arms buildup by Beijing, the London Telegraph reported yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 13).

Japan last week unveiled plans to field additional Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missile interceptors and to expedite production of Aegis missile defense warships (see GSN, Dec. 17). Although Tokyo said the deployments were aimed at countering potential North Korean missile strikes, Beijing warned the plan would undermine Chinese defenses.

"Japan's new military investments are going to transform the military balance in the region," the Chinese diplomat said. "China will have no choice but to respond by enhancing its own capabilities."

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu characterized Japan's missile defense plans as "irresponsible."

Analysts expressed concern that an arms race could prompt India and later Pakistan to augment their own missile capabilities.

"China depends heavily on both conventional and nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to offset the technological weaknesses of its armed forces," said Ashley Tellis, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "so a more robust Japanese missile defense system is a real threat to its clout" (Praveen Swami, London Telegraph, Dec. 20).