ICE - special US Missile shield - supporters and opponents take aim at each other
The US plans for missile defences in Central Europe were debated in Prague this week with both sides wheeling out their big guns. For the “anti” camp the secret weapon is Philip Coyle, one of America's leading experts on missile defence technology. Mr Coyle, who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration and was in charge of all weapons testing at the Pentagon from 1994 to 2001, has worked on missiles and how to stop them for the last 40 years. Today he's a senior adviser to the Washington-based Center for Defence Information, and is a leading opponent of the Bush administration's missile defence plans. He was invited to Prague by Greenpeace, and is speaking at a number of seminars on the issue this week. Radio Prague's Rob Cameron asked him why he'd accepted the invitation.
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