Star Wars work to start as soon as ABM Treaty expires

Work on underground silos for missile interceptors will begin in Alaska on June 14, the first day the government will be freed from a 1972 treaty that bans major missile defenses, said the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency.

The work in Alaska on underground silos for missile interceptors is an example of a project that would not have been permitted under the treaty. The US plans to build five missile interceptor silos and associated communications systems this summer so that by September 2004 at Fort Greely near Fairbanks.

The urgency with which Missile Defence is being pursued suggests that the US is likely to make a formal approach to Britain to build new facilities in North Yorkshire in mid June.

Source: Washington Post