As early as July 2008 one of the US Congress members, Mark Kirk stated that Washington will accommodate its ABM radar in Israel. Moreover, there is a plan to accommodate one more similar type radar in Japan. Cooperation agreement on ABM system between Tokyo and Washington was signed late in 2004, which is a middle point to more arrogant plan such as Japan’s integration into American global ABM system with joint American-Japan command post by the year 2010.

By stationing its new forward-based radar system in East Asia the US will strengthen its military cooperation and political influence in this region. It will demonstrate other countries that the US has far-reaching plans and stay here for long, exerting strong influence upon Asia Pacific region as a whole.

But it sure will destabilize the existing non-proliferation status in Asia Pacific. If Japan will place emphasis on its military cooperation with the US, it would stimulate the militarization process in Japan itself, as well as in the whole region of Asia Pacific.

There is no doubt that these new TMD (Theater Missile Defense) and NMD (National Missile Defense) systems in Japan will be aimed against China at first place and it sure can undermine US-China relationship for long. No doubt that China will respond by joining into arms race, especially because America has plans to include Taiwan into this TMD system and is going to provide it with some new technologies and equipment.

If China will join the arms race (and it will), India would give a quick and strong response by reinforcing its military financing, including nuclear armament. Pakistan will react then, as well as South Korea, being worried by Japanese increased military activity.

This chain reaction will seriously destabilize the existing non-proliferation status and urge on unwarrantable avalanche-like arms race in the region.

Lets us see more information on the ABM's and what are the purposes of the US installing so many anti-Missile systems across the world.

The Arrow project got underway after the U.S. and Israel agreed to co-fund it on May 6, 1986.

The Arrow ABM system was designed and constructed in Israel with financial support by the United States in a multi-billion dollar development program called "Minhelet Homa" with the participation of companies like Israel Military Industries, Tadiran and Israel Aerospace Industries.

In 1998 the Israeli military conducted a successful test of their Arrow ABM. Designed to intercept incoming missiles travelling at up to 2 mile/s (3 km/s), the Arrow is expected to perform much better than the Patriot did in the Gulf War. On July 29, 2004 Israel and the United States carried out joint experiment in the USA, in which the Arrow was launched against a real Scud missile. The experiment was a success, as the Arrow destroyed the Scud with a direct hit. In December 2005 the system was successfully deployed in a test against a replicated Shahab-3 missile. This feat was repeated on February 11, 2007. (wikipedia)

The primary plans for use of nuclear weapons by each side are tied to the destruction of targets on the opposing side. There simply are not enough strategic nuclear weapons held by Russia and the U.S. to strike targets other than those on the territory of the opposing side. Simultaneously, all land-based ICBMs are in a state of readiness for a retaliatory strike based on signals received from a missile attack early warning system. This results in the continued relevance of maintaining the system of mutually assured destruction. Hence, it inevitably follows that maintenance of the balance of strategic nuclear arms and strategic defensive systems is a necessity.

This is important to know since the current US plans to expand its ABM's globally, from Poland to Israel on the one side and from Japan to Australia on the other, shows that freaks are at work in the Pentagon.

With the US hurrying its ABM global system, at the same time, information has emerged in some mass media concerning U.S. wishes to deploy elements of an ABM system in countries to the south of Russia, which clearly suggests a dual purpose to the structure of the American ABM system—against both a threat from the south and from Russia. (www.cceia;org)

The U.S. offers no guarantees that the matter will be limited to a single radar and a single base with 10 interceptor missiles. Washington has issued no guarantees that after a time the number of interceptors will not increase to 100 or 1000; that they will not be deployed at other bases (closer to the presumed trajectories of Russian ICBMs or SLBMs); that they will not be augmented with boost-phase interceptor systems; and that sea, air, and space-based forces, including weapons based on new physical principles (laser and other), will not be added. The proposed ABM system in the Czech Republic and Poland may be only the first step in the deployment of a much larger system in Europe. Similarities with the rationale for NATO expansion suggest themselves.

The radar complex planned for deployment in the Czech Republic will be capable of monitoring the missile and space activities in the European part of Russia and in the Beloye and Karskoye seas. This will expand technical intelligence capabilities targeting Russian territory, including the Plesetsk launch site and the Northern Fleet. In addition, there is no guarantee that interceptor missiles launched from Poland will not be capable of hitting space carrier vehicles launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

The potential missile threats from the North Korea (DPRK) and Iran, which are used as a justification for the sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, are clearly exaggerated. According to the estimates of some experts, the DPRK will need at least 25-30 years to develop an ICBM under the most favorable circumstances, and it will take at least 50-60 years to create enough missiles to aim them at targets located on different continents.

Iran currently has several missiles with a medium range of 1200-1300 kilometers ("Shahab-3") and may in the future increase their range to 2000-2200 kilometers. Thus their maximum range currently extends to Israel, Ankara, and the North Caucasus, and after their range is increased they will be capable of reaching Istanbul and Volgograd. In contrast to the DPRK, Iran may be capable of developing and deploying long-range missiles that could, in principle, reach the territory of Western Europe, but experts estimate that it will take Tehran at least 15 to 20 years to develop and deploy missiles of this class, reveals the CCEIA.org.

In Israel however, from its mountain perch in Har Keren, the US radar will be able to monitor the take-off of any aircraft or missile up to 1,500 miles away - giving Israel a vital extra times to react to a missile attack, Israeli military sources told TIME.

Israel has its own radar systems, but it's range is much shorter. Still, some see several drawbacks for Israel in the radar, and blame Defense Minister Ehud Barak for requesting its deployment in Israel without consulting anyone other than his chief of staff. Some in the upper echelons of the Israeli Defense Force alleged they fear that although the radar will enhance Israel's protection against strikes, it may also open up Israel's own military secrets to the Americans.

However, the Israel fears are to be contained easily since the US already knows what Israel possess and the reason for the installing of the radar on Israeli soil is simply to monitor the Arab world and to help the US reinforce its position in the Middle East. The US finds it hard to trust any of its Arab allies so far as there could be a revolt in the region that could cause the fall of its allies and this would put any of its ABM systems in the Middle East (Except Israel for now) in the hands of anti-US politicians.