Antiballistic Systems and Strategic Stability

After the end of the Cold War threats USA are facing changed significantly. In the contemporary international system the greatest challenge is posed by “rogue states“. The threat of attack with the use of weapons of mass destruction is even higher than was during the Cold War Era, because also non-state actors could employ such weapons. The threat of Soviet ballistic missles was to be eliminated or limited by a defensive antiballistic system components and usable technologies of which were under research end development since 1983 when Strategic Defense Iniciative (SDI) was announced by the U. S. president Ronald Reagan. Contemporary National Missile Defense system is seen as a shield which should prevent the American homeland primarily from the attack by warheads carrying WMD. Planned system will not be capable of eliminating all Russian strategic missiles. Because Russia is not considered a great threat for the USA anymore it is not even its purpose. The main role for the U. S. diplomacy should be to try to persuade Russians often obsessed with threats that does not exists, that NMD will not endanger them neither the strategic stability.