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 ...
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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 ...
The FBI expects to have a greatly improved capability for matching fingerprints by late 2010 as part of its Next Generation Identification (NGI) system under the current program baseline and then make improvements and add capabilities on an annual basis, according to the agency's program manager ...
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace and Defense McHugh In Theater. Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.), the new ranking member of HASC, says he tried in vain to solicit equipment requests from Marines he visited in Afghanistan during an early-month visit. "I asked them time and time ...
President Says United States Should Counter Iranian Threat With 'All Resources,' Mentioning Diplomacy President Obama discussed the threat from Iran, but never mentioned missile defense, during his first formal White House press conference. He assailed Iran for its nuclear production program, ...
United States May Not Have Time, Until 2013-2015, Before Iran Develops Nuclear-Tipped ICBM While some in Congress think the United States could cancel the European Missile Defense (EMD) program and substitute the sea-based Aegis/Standard Missile system, the ships still would require data from the ...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said nothing has been decided on a U.S. response to repeated Russian demands that Washington kill the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system. She was asked whether the United States is prepared to pull back the EMD shield plan in exchange for gaining ...