It will not translate into actual protection for the American people against missile attack.
The United States and its interests will be increasingly at risk from ballistic missile attack.
McIntyre: The United States still has deterrence as the bedrock of protecting itself from missile attack.
Consequently, under our Constitution, the decision to deploy national protection against missile attack has already been taken.
It will, as of today, provide real protection for parts of NATO Europe against ballistic missile attack.
Fourth, you have to ignore the fact that the Russians already have a territorial defense against ballistic missile attack.
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The Clinton Administration's efforts to deprive the American people of effective protection against ballistic missile attack is on a roll.
But it is also vital that progress be made towards the construction of an effective global defence against missile attack.
Obama and congressional Democrats should work with Republicans to protect the American people and our allies against ballistic missile attack.
The Clinton Administration believes the threat of missile attack, if it exists at all, is far off in the distance.
Instead, Mr. Bush's only hope of realizing his goal of defending America against missile attack is to throw down the gauntlet.
During his time in office, the United States has moved steadily toward the deployment of a shield against ballistic missile attack.
That is particularly true in one area: His commitment to defend the American people, their forces, and allies overseas against ballistic-missile attack.
Such a proposition was dubious twenty years ago when the only threat of ballistic missile attack was from the USSR and involved nuclear weapons.
And the danger of such a missile attack is increasing inexorably.
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It is true, of course, that the case for correcting America's abject vulnerability to ballistic missile attack is being more powerfully made with every passing day.
Once upon a time, a President of the United States promised to protect his people, their forces overseas and friends against the threat of ballistic missile attack.
The upshot of such a move may well be that the United States fields neither a credible force of B-2s nor an effective defense against ballistic missile attack.
What is particularly appalling is that it would do so at the very moment that the requirement for its defenses against ballistic missile attack are becoming more necessary.
One, of course, was over the particular likelihood of a missile attack on the United States and thus the necessity of trying to develop a capability to stop it.
For example, the difference between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the recent war with Iraq was not that one was invulnerable to ballistic missile attack and the other was not.
Although it is never mentioned in the movie, there is only one reason why such a nightmare scenario might arise: The United States has no defense against ballistic missile attack.
Friday's successful advanced missile defense test, which shot down a mock nuclear warhead in space, shows that the US is getting closer to defending the country against ballistic missile attack.
The comprehensive capability to defend against ballistic missile attack inherent in a space-based SDI is utterly incompatible with the concept of strategic vulnerability to such attack enshrined in that 1972 accord.
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They have expressed a willingness to position respectively interceptors and radars to protect Europe and the West against the emerging threat of missile attack from Iran and potentially other Mideast nations.
Ronald Reagan launched his Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983 out of a conviction that it would be better to "protect American lives than to avenge them" after a nuclear missile attack.
American people against missile attack will entail huge costs.
However, even if the 43rd President of the United States should yield to the temptations the 40th President so steadfastly resisted, it is unlikely this nation will remain undefended against missile attack.
The one dearest to the hearts of arms controllers is of course the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, under which the U.S. and the now nonexistent Soviet Union pledged not to build defenses against possible missile attack.
In a previous position that Bishop held from May 2010 to April 2012, Bishop had access to "top secret" information on the command's efforts to defend against a ballistic missile attack from North Korea, Crutchfield said.
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