Republicans Assert Testing Issue A Pretext Democrats Use To Justify Slashing Funds For Missile Defense In Fiscal 2010 Budget Cuts That Harm Ground-based Missile Defense Program Would Weaken U.S. Defense Against Long-Range Or ICBM Enemy Missiles The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is poised to increase ...
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Deferring Or Killing Some Missile Defense Programs Gambles Cities Won't Be Lost Some members of Congress are considering cuts in ballistic missile defense programs that amount to a gamble that potential rogue-state enemies will attack with short- or medium-range missiles, rather than long-range ...
Updated -- Feb. 28, 2009 - 12 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: March 6 * Mission: Kepler Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Complex 17 - Pad 17-B Launch Time: ...
Still-Developing Missile Defense Programs May Be Cut In Half, Franks Cautions Such Deep Cuts Would Echo Attempts To Eviscerate ABL, KEI, EMD Programs In Budgets; Hearing Set For Wednesday As President Obama continues preparing his first federal budget, and some Democrats in Congress search for ...
United States May Add Missile Curbs To Six-Party Talks With North Korea, Clinton Predicts North Korean moves to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile is "a matter of great concern" to the United States and its allies, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as she continued her ...
Analyst: Regime Ignored Pressures In 2006, Tested Missile, Nuke; It's Still Obstinate The West shouldn't assume that North Korea can be persuaded to abandon its moves toward launching a long-range missile, a military analyst said. "I would have no confidence" that sanctions or other ...
North Korea, Iran Might Use Nuclear ICBMs To Intimidate United States Book Says Possibility of Attack Makes National Missile Defense 'Attractive' Even a small nuclear weapon from the North Korean arsenal would wreck devastating destruction and death in a missile attack on an American city, ...
Updated -- Feb. 20, 2009 - 5:45 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 24 Mission: OCO Launch Vehicle: Orbital Sciences Taurus Rocket Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base - Launch Pad SLC 576-E Launch Time:1:51:30 a.m. PST. (4 ...
The United States shouldn't completely abandon its plans for the European Missile Defense (EMD) system as Russia has demanded, but Washington should slow the EMD effort until it is tested and proven to work, according to Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee ...
By Marina Malenic With the expectation that the Obama administration will reduce the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) outlays in upcoming budget cycles, some industry officials are advocating increased expenditure on boost-phase missile intercept systems. "We don't know exactly where this ...