Is the U.S. right to scrap plans for a missile defense shield in Europe?
This is why the U.S. must move with urgency to develop and deploy an effective missile defense shield.
We have a -- for many years, a missile defense shield for Europe and for the United States was a theoretical exercise.
The Defense Department has not announced what will be discussed, but Cartwright is the point man for the missile defense shield program.
We also finally got -- we finally went from the theoretical to the reality of a missile defense shield for Europe that also protects America.
Also, as part of any plan to prevent aggressive action by the DPRK, it is necessary to go beyond the capabilities of conventional military deterrence and deploy a missile defense shield.
On Thursday, President Obama said the United States is significantly overhauling Bush-era plans for a missile defense shield in Europe, based partly on the latest analysis of Iran's offensive capabilities.
Russia was invited to participate in the discussion about the new missile defense shield at a NATO summit in Lisbon in 2010, despite the fact that the country is not a member.
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Mr. Putin ran for election with an anti-American campaign, and Mr. Medvedev said last week he wants an assurance that a planned U.S.-led missile defense shield in Europe isn't directed at Russia's arsenal.
On February 10, in an appearance with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, Clinton signaled that the United States might rethink plans for a missile defense shield in Europe if Iran decides against pursuing nuclear weapons.
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Capabilities like an adaptive missile defense shield, conventional warheads with worldwide reach, and others that we are developing enable us to reduce the role of nuclear weapons, as other nuclear powers join us in drawing down.
At Lisbon, it became a realistic missile defense shield for Europe and the United States based on a phased adaptive approach constructed by General Cartwright and others that make what we have always wanted a genuine reality.
What they are trying to build in the missile defense agency and it's in the process of creating is layers of ballistic missile defense shield, which combines ground-base interceptors, which the Bush administration would like to have placed in Poland.
The Bush administration now faces greater hurdles in selling controversial initiatives, such as its new energy plan, which in part calls for increased oil drilling and greater use of nuclear power, and the president's dream of a national missile defense shield.
Ellen Tauscher, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security said this week that the U.S. was ready to offer Russia written assurances that the NATO-backed Euro missile defense shield being built is not directed against the country.
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The group's ads questioning whether the administration has done enough to protect the U.S. from missile attacks came out just prior to Bush's foreign policy initiative proposing more reliance on a strong missile defense shield, though both camps say it's just coincidence.
While Rice struggled here to make progress on thornier strategic arms issues with Russia--Lavrov reiterated his country's disapproval of U.S. plans to place a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe--she has more momentum when it comes to pressuring business to shut out Iran.
At Tuesday's lunch meeting, President Bush said he also briefed the Republican senators on his trip to Europe for the Group of Eight summit and his discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the U.S. plan to put elements of a missile defense shield in eastern Europe.
The rally was held on Defenders of the Fatherland Day, a holiday in honor of past military campaigns, and mirrored Russia's recent assertiveness on the world stage in blocking Western efforts to condemn the regime in Syria and vowing to step up military spending to counter a North Atlantic Treaty Organization plan to cast a missile defense shield over Europe.
The White House confirmed that the exchange came after a discussion about the missile-defense shield.
Washington and Tokyo are working on a joint missile-defense shield, and South Korea is considering the purchase of American SM-2 defensive missiles for its destroyers.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that Russia reserves the right to withdraw from its new arms-control treaty with the U.S. if it decides the planned U.S. missile-defense shield threatens its security, the Associated Press reported.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Revolutionary Guards' airspace unit, said Monday that Iran wouldn't "sit idly" as the U.S. and Europe built a missile-defense shield program that could target Iran, according to IRNA, the official news agency.
But that's precisely what the world got--much to the astonishment of the White House, which just weeks ago had been using Kim as Exhibit A of a "rogue dictator" while trying to convince Russia of the value of a missile-defense shield.
Sadly, the broad-based missile-defense-shield cause is not helped by the Pentagon's bureaucracy, either.
The Russian Defense Ministry maintains that the U.S. missile shield program would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty signed by Russia and the United States.
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However, noting that missile shield advocates will use this launch to push missile defense technology, Wright told CNN, it would not be the answer since North Korea, and any other country could easily use decoys and other counter-measures to thwart the anti-missile technology.
We have it within our means to develop a multilayered missile defense system that could protect us from attack from rogue states, as well as shield us from missiles fired from ships off our shores.
Missile defense has been a sore point in relations between Washington and Moscow, with Russia believing the shield would ultimately erode its own strategic nuclear deterrent.
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