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How It Works: Detecting a North Korean Missile Strike on Guam

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By Todd Harrison, Tom Karako, Thomas G. Roberts

In early August, North Korea threatened to launch four ballistic missiles towards Guam, targeting waters less than 30 kilometers off the island’s coast. How and when would U.S. missile defense forces respond if an attack like this were to take place?

Narrated by Todd Harrison and Tom Karako. Written and produced by Thomas G. Roberts and the CSIS Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab.Aerospace

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Todd Harrison is VP of Research at Meta Aerospace and the former director of the Aerospace Security Project and Defense Budget Analysis at CSIS. As a senior fellow in the International Security Program, he led the Center’s efforts to provide in-depth, nonpartisan research and analysis of space security, air power, and defense funding issues.

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Thomas Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he arrived in 2014 as a fellow with the Project on Nuclear Issues. His research focuses on national security, U.S. nuclear forces, missile defense, and public law.

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Thomas G. Roberts is an adjunct fellow with the CSIS Aerospace Security Project and a graduate research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory. He is also a Ph.D. student in the Institute’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include civil and commercial space policy, space security, and orbital mechanics.

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