It delayed development of a new nuclear bomber and a successor to Trident ballistic-missile submarines.
Another area where IAI is uniquely strong because of Israel's security requirements is in anti-ballistic-missile defences.
Kwajalein atoll, in the Marshall Islands, bristles with radar, optical sensors, telemetry-receiving stations and other ballistic-missile testing equipment.
One of the main reasons given for this decision was the class' inability to deal with future cruise- and ballistic-missile threats.
We should convert older ballistic-missile submarines with core life remaining to cruise-missile submarines, which is allowed under the New START Treaty.
That is particularly true in one area: His commitment to defend the American people, their forces, and allies overseas against ballistic-missile attack.
Mr. Bush has similarly refused to allow anybody else to determine whether and how the United States will be defended against ballistic-missile blackmail or attack.
The radar is designed to detect ballistic-missile attacks on the U.S., and is only one of hundreds of military systems the company makes in Massachusetts, Arizona and elsewhere.
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The U.S. and other countries, most notably Korea's close neighbor Japan, are deeply worried by the North's long-range ballistic-missile program, which Pyongyang has put on hold but not abandoned.
In addition, planned replacement of the Ohio-class nuclear-ballistic-missile submarine has also been delayed, and no decision has yet been made on whether the U.S. next-generation strategic bomber force will even be capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
The year the oldest Ohio-class ballistic-missile sub completes its final nuclear patrol is now expected to be 2027, which sounds a long way off until you realize it takes nearly two decades to design, develop, build and test the lead ship in a successor class.
General Dynamics currently has 5, 000 engineers and draftsmen at work in and around Groton designing the next generation of ballistic-missile subs, and an additional 2, 000 tradesmen assembling Virginia-class attack subs, so the town is on firm ground in calling itself the submarine capital of the world.
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Russia appears close to agreeing a deal to revise the anti-ballistic missile treaty - lifting its objections to an American system of missile defence.
Russia was alarmed when the US withdrew from another Cold War agreement - the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - in 2001.
For its part, however, the Soviet Union is demanding that such encryption be prohibited on both ballistic and non-ballistic missile tests.
It is useful to recall that in the run-up to his decision to exercise America's right to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- a right conferred by the Treaty itself -- President Bush faced heated domestic and international criticism.
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You say that as soon as America starts pouring concrete to construct anti-missile defences this will constitute a violation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
But Putin was less successful in convincing South Korea that U.S. plans to build a missile defense system violates the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
When Bush announced the United States was pulling out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty, Putin took it in stride -- suddenly ending a quarrel that once threatened to disrupt U.S.-Russian relations.
Biden is "Dr. No" with respect to pursuing development, test and deployment of missile defenses incompatible with the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Moscow has said a move towards a missile defence strategy would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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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When urging the parliament to ratify Start II on Friday he warned that Russia would withdraw from all arms control agreements if the US went ahead with the missile defence programme, thereby breaking the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Even as one lot of American diplomats shot down the extension of the BWC, others were busy reiterating their country's determination to scrap the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, a cornerstone of international arms-control for the past 30 years.
Critics believe the missile shield would spell an end to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, and some European leaders agree with Russian warnings that it could start a new arms race.
In 1972, the Nixon Administration gave up on the mission, signing an Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Moscow that (with subsequent modifications) limited each side to 100 land-based interceptors at a single site.
This deterrence concept of assured vulnerability was formally enshrined in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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Russia's hold on us is the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, which essentially prohibits building defensive weapons.
He also suggested the United States may need to renegotiate the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty with Russia.
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