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Missile Defense to be Tested, but Questions About U.S. Security Remain
The Missile Defense Agency is scheduled to test its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor over the Pacific later this month. The test target it will be directed against is being designed to...
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Despite Failed Test, Missile Defense Program Must Continue
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced on January 31, 2010, that a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system for countering long-range missiles that took place over the Pacific Ocean...
View ArticleVideo: Airborne Laser Destroys Ballistic Missile
The U.S. Missle Defense Agency (MDA) reports that its airborne laser successfully shot down its first ballistic missile last night over Ventura, California. The MDA’s press release explains that the...
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Obama’s Weak Missile Defense Nominee
When President Barack Obama first nominated long time missile defense critic Philip Coyle to be associate director for national security and international affairs at the White House Office of Science...
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The New York Times and Missile Defense
Yesterday, The New York Times ran an editorial titled “Fixing Missile Defense.” Given the editors’ clear track record of opposing missile defense, they must mean “fix” it in the sense of neutering it....
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Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Failure?
On December 15, the Missile Defense Agency conducted an unsuccessful test of Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), a long-range ballistic missile defense system designed to protect the U.S. homeland...
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The 30th Anniversary of SDI, President Reagan’s Visionary Idea
Benjamin Myers Photography Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) speech in 1983 launched a program to eliminate the threat posed by a nuclear attack and set the groundwork for today’s...
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Iron Dome: A Defense Bargain
Newscom The Pentagon has recently requested more than $220 million in fiscal year (FY) 2014 to support Israel’s air defense system, known as “Iron Dome.” The Missile Defense Agency likewise requested...
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House Committee’s National Defense Authorization Act: A First Peek
Andrew Burton/Reuters/Newscom Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) passed the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to fund U.S. forces. The Heritage Foundation recently set...
View ArticleMissile Defense: Independent Working Group Holds Valuable Seminar
In recent days, the House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee adopted different versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014. They both include...
View ArticleMissile Defense: House Overwhelmingly Approves a Third Site
The House of Representatives voted 416–1 this week to approve construction of a third U.S. missile defense site. The Heritage Foundation has advocated a missile defense site on the East Coast for...
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