Ballistic missile defence leads to less security

An offence-defence arms race won't make us any safer.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency tests a ground-based interceptor missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on June 22, 2014. The U.S. is currently expanding its arsenal of defensive interceptor missiles.Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency via Flickr

Opinion

BY ERNIE REGEHR

August 16, 2017

With both the rhetoric and North Korea’s nuclear capabilities escalating, the Canadian response invariably turns to debating the merits of joining the American ballistic missile defence (BMD) system that is designed to intercept North Korean missiles. Peter MacKay, a former defence minister in th...

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