Physicists challenge U.S. missile claims

Physicists challenge U.S. missile claims - USATODAY.com: “The Pentagon agency overseeing the missile program, the Missile Defense Agency, rejects the scientists’ claims, saying their analyses are flawed. The United States says the missile system is intended to counter a threat from Iran and could not take out Russian missiles. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has dismissed Russia’s concerns as ‘ludicrous.’

But the six scientists, whose backgrounds include elite American universities, research labs and high levels of government, said in interviews that Russia’s concerns were justified. ‘The claim by the Missile Defense Agency is not correct,’ said Theodore Postol, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a longtime missile defense critic. ‘And it is hard to understand how they could get something so basic wrong.’”

Why would Russia or anyone believe the missile defense would be there to protest Europe from Iran? The US and Europe have flatly said we will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.
The missles are clearly going to be in positions to stop any kind of surgical nuclear strike by Russia on one specific European country or more likely on Israel.