Under the Obama plan, dozens of Aegis vessels will eventually be upgraded to defend against the full range of ballistic threats, including intercontinental-range missiles.
By 2005, the Pentagon estimates, some 800 short-range ballistic missiles could be in Beijing's arsenal.
More than two dozen nations either already possess long-range ballistic missiles or will soon have them.
Kadish's words, "eliminate the opportunity for the earliest possible contingency against medium-range ballistic missiles abroad"?
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The Pentagon says China is developing sophisticated short-range ballistic missiles and lethal antiship cruise missiles.
They do nothing but posture as the regime builds atomic bombs and tests medium range ballistic missiles.
But Britain believes Iran has also conducted at least three secret tests of medium-range ballistic missiles since October.
It was destroyed in 2007 when China targeted it for a test of a ground-based, medium-range ballistic missile.
Time to mate nuclear warheads with Iran's growing arsenal of longer and longer range ballistic and cruise missiles.
The Fateh-110, or Conqueror, is a short-range ballistic missile developed by Iran and first put into service in 2002.
Both sides have short and medium-range ballistic missiles which could deliver nuclear warheads.
North Korea, meanwhile, is believed to be preparing to test a long-range ballistic missile that could reach the United States.
The missiles are deployed with both the U.S. and Japanese navies to defend against short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.
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Does the possession of increasingly capable and longer-range ballistic missiles in the hands of each of these nations concern you?
The THAAD contract seeks a missile defense system against short and medium range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase of flight.
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Security Council in an attempt to rein in the country from testing long-range ballistic missiles that could one day carry nuclear weapons.
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It has civilian rockets that can be converted long range ballistic missile.
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At the time, the U.S. had intermediate range ballistic missiles in Turkey.
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As U.S. intelligence revealed last week, the destructive intercept was performed by a kinetic-kill vehicle (KKV) launched onboard a medium-range ballistic missile.
At the same time, the Iranian regime is working to acquire nuclear arms and long-range ballistic missiles with which to deliver them.
After all, under such circumstances, long-range ballistic missiles enable even poor Third World states to demand First World treatment just by having them.
North Korea has significant ballistic short-range missile capabilities, perhaps a few crude nuclear weapons, but no demonstrated ability yet to combine the two.
Cartwright pointed to proliferation of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, noting that the country must be able to discourage adversaries from using them.
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Similarly, the Alaska site would do nothing to alleviate the grave danger American forces overseas presently face from short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Consider for a moment, the impact on the U.S. and allied commitment to resist Iraqi aggression if Saddam Hussein had had intercontinental-range ballistic missiles.
Evolutionary sea-based defenses, an early version of which conducted a successful intercept of a short-range ballistic missile two months ago, meet both of these tests.
North Korea shows no signs of easing its hard-line stance or curtailing its efforts to acquire long-range ballistic missiles and a stockpile of nuclear weapons.
And recently we have observed indications of an outlaw state attempting to do the same thing with a short range ballistic missile from a ship.
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This month we learned that Venezuela and Iran are jointly deploying intermediate range ballistic missiles in Venezuela that will be capable of targeting US cities.
New Delhi's shorter-range ballistic missiles already cover Pakistani territory, he said.
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