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, ...
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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 ...
She Condemns Iran For Developing Missile Able To Strike Targets In United States Tauscher Says European System Won't Be Dropped In Deal With Moscow, But EMD Would Protect America, Not Europe The United States shouldn't completely abandon its plans for the European Missile Defense (EMD) system as ...
North Korea is assembling a long-range missile and may be able to launch it by the end of this month, according to news organization reports. As well, Pyongyang issued a declaration that it has a right to have a space program. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the impending missile ...
The United States should move to defend American and allied space assets from attack, a noted analyst said. Baker Spring, a research fellow with The Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank, responded to a question from Space & Missile Defense Report at a forum of the Marshall Institute, ...
China is planning to build at least two nuclear powered aircraft carriers, according to a report in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo. The only plus for the United States here is that construction might not begin until 2020 on the carriers that would be based on designs for the discontinued ...
Updated -- Feb. 10, 2009 - 9:20 a.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 22 * Mission: STS-119 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A Launch Time: TBD Description: Space shuttle ...
The Navy gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $78.6 million contract to produce upgrades for the Aegis shipboard weapons control system, the company announced. Lockheed is to produce the next evolution of hardware that will be incorporated into the Aegis Modernization and Aegis Ballistic Missile ...
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 ...