Part 1 - Threats, Realities, and Tradeoffs

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Witness Testimonies:

Mr. Joseph Cirincione. President, the Ploughshares Fund.

Mr. Stephen A. Hildreth. Specialist in National Defense, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service

Mr. Baker Spring. Specialist in Middle Eastern Affair; Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division; Congressional Research Service

Dr. Stephen E. Flynn, Ph.D., CMD, USCG [ret]. F.M. Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy, The Heritage Foundation

Part 2 - What are the Prospects, What are the Costs?

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Witness Testimonies:

Dr. Lisbeth Gronlund, Ph.D. Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

Dr. Richard L. Garwin, Ph.D. IBM Fellow Emeritus

Mr. Jeff Kueter. President, The George C. Marshall Institute

Mr. Philip E. Coyle, III. Senior Analyst, Center for Defense Information

Part 3 - Questions for the Missile Defense Agency

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Witness Testimonies:

(Panel 1)

Lieutenant General Henry A. Trey Obering III Part I

Lieutenant General Henry A. Trey Obering III Part II
Director, Missile Defense Agency, Office of the Secretary of Defense

(Panel 2)

Philip E. Coyle, III Former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in the Department of Defense from 1994-2001, Currently serves as a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information

The Honorable Henry F. Cooper, Ph.D. Chairman, High Frontier, Former civilian director of the Strategic Defense Initiative – SDI – from 1990 to 1993

Mr. Joseph Cirincione President, Ploughshares Foundation, Former Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, Member of the Council of Foreign Relations