Canadians protest missile defense systems
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WINNIPEG—Twenty Canadian church leaders, including Mennonite Church Canada moderator Henry Krause, have spoken out against ballistic missile defense, or BMD, systems.
In a March 15 letter sent by the Canadian Council of Churches to Prime Minister Paul Martin, church leaders said proposed security solutions like BMD “can never satisfy the deep human yearning for immunity from nuclear terror … [and] fail to counter the nuclear threat and precipitate further insecurities.”
The United States has been researching BMD technology since the 1940s. A Canadian government Web site states that officials are “examining possible Canadian participation” in a BMD program.
Missile defense is one of the largest governmental research and development programs in the United States, with a budget of about $9 billion in 2004.—Mennonite Church Canada News Service
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