Parliamentary briefing
International and US domestic opposition to Star Wars is increasing. In the US, senior Democrats are speaking out against the Bush Administration's confrontational policies. Senator Joseph Biden (senior Democratic member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee): " If people aren't careful, National Missile Defence could come at the expense of both nuclear non-proliferation and alliance cohesion All this for a system, that at this point we cannot yet build, at a cost we have no idea of."
Meanwhile, the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, has arrived at the Kwajalein Missile Range, in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, to protest against the forthcoming US Star Wars missile test. Greenpeace is campaigning against Star Wars because it will make conflict more likely and increase the threat of nuclear conflict.
