Just an example: our ground based, mid course defense system, or GMD, is the only defense system capable of defending us against a long range missile attack from a country, say Iran or North Korea.
We remain apart on the issue of missile defense in the sense that the United States has committed to deploying a missile defense system in Europe -- the phase adaptive approach -- which I'd add, for the first time is a missile defense system that protects all of Europe and the United States from the threat of ballistic missiles.
Last July, when you signed the National Missile Defense Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-38), making it the policy of the United States to deploy an effective national missile defense system capable against limited threats as soon as the technology to do so is ready, you committed the United States in law to deploying a national missile defense system that would meet emerging threats.
On those occasions, the Gates plan would have Marines moving ashore in vehicles much less survivable than the system the defense secretary wants to cancel.
And some say if we build such a system, the Soviets will build a defense system of their own.
That means expanding our homeland missile defense system Ground-based Midcourse Defense to an East Coast site, something that Congress has told the Pentagon to study.
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We see now the deployment of a missile defense system that is transitioning now to the defense of NATO, that ultimately will provide for the defense of Europe and the United States.
That is the site in Moorestown, New Jersey where the Navy tests the radars for its Aegis combat system, the most capable air- and missile-defense system in the world.
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Color Red is no substitute for an Iron Dome defense system, but with as little as 15 seconds between an air defense warning and a rocket striking its target, Color Red offers a little bit of extra time for users to find shelter.
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Immediately establish that the Navy's 60-odd ships equipped with the Aegis fleet air defense system will, henceforth, be part of the Nation's missile defense infrastructure.
The Center for Security Policy has learned that a senior member of the National Security Council staff recently explored with key congressional figures how they would react were the White House to announce that it was abandoning the Limited Defense System the modest, primarily ground-based SDI program authorized, indeed demanded, by the Missile Defense Act.
The Center for Security Policy has learned that a senior member of the National Security Council staff recently explored with key congressional figures how they would react were the White House to announce that it was abandoning the Limited Defense System -- the modest, primarily ground-based SDI program authorized, indeed demanded, by the Missile Defense Act.
Sixty-four percent of Americans now say they favor a missile defense system, up from 56 percent.
The existing missile defense system was "deeply flawed, " said Cirincione, whose foundation opposes nuclear weapons.
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There are lots of ways in which you could overwhelm the missile defense system.
First, other programs are needed to make Arrow effective as an "upper-tier" defense system.
She signed a deal that would include Poland in the expanding American missile defense system.
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Ending the missile defense system, one official said, is not contingent on having Moscow's help.
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We must now go all out to develop a ballistic missile defense system.
Undoubtedly, their discussions were smoothed by Clinton's recent decision to postpone deployment of a national missile-defense system.
The Israeli Arrow Defense System, with a high-explosive warhead, has a kill range of tens of meters.
Specifically, a firm decision to deploy a limited national missile defense system should not be further postponed.
From the beginning, that missile defense system has been oriented to address threats from Iran and other places.
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Politically, it will solidify the NATO alliance if all its members can be brought within this defense system.
There are, indeed, very strong reasons for building a global rather than merely a national missile defense system.
Other Kim family members control the capital's defense system and the assorted front-line units stationed near the DMZ.
Israel does not have an effective missile defense system, either for ballistic missiles or Hezbollah rockets fired from Lebanon.
In civilian life Garner was president of SYColeman, a defense contractor that helped Israel develop its Arrow missile-defense system.
And the White House, with Gore's concurrence, has twiddled its thumbs on moving toward an effective missile defense system.
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