One rumor making the rounds was that Mitnick could launch nuclear missiles merely by whistling into a telephone.
With its 95% share of the world's gallium arsenide semiconductor market, its chips steer Tomahawk missiles.
Estimates of their range vary, but some suggest the missiles could travel 4, 000km (2, 500 miles).
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered air defense systems around Washington armed with anti-aircraft missiles Tuesday.
The Metropolitan Police reported low-level disturbances in Brixton, south-east London, including missiles being thrown at police.
The Americans have paid for better security at the sites where the missiles are stored.
ICBMs are ground-launched ballistic missiles capable of traveling long distances and penetrating heavily defended areas.
In fact, it provides an effective alternative to using expensive missiles against low value targets.
Many have experience in aerospace working on jets, rockets, missiles, satellites and unmanned aircraft.
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In 2003 U.S. and Kuwaiti forces intercepted all nine Iraqi-launched missiles with PAC-2 and PAC-3 systems.
An Israeli F-16 shot the drone with air-to-air missiles, an Israeli military official told CNN.
The delivery systems include guided bombs, guided artillery shells, cruise missiles, and antiradiation missiles.
It is a Strategic Defense Initiative aimed ultimately at finding a nonnuclear defense against ballistic missiles.
There are reports that North Korea fired a number of short range missiles this morning.
This is why modern armies spend a great deal of money on guided missiles.
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The Strategic Defense Initiative and antiballistic missiles, with their defensive nature, fit perfectly, he says.
U.S. officials say Iran recently received North Korean missiles capable of reaching Western European capitals.
South Korean intelligence estimates that North Korea has about 700 such missiles in its arsenal.
That will include deploying Raytheon's antimissile missiles aboard Aegis destroyers and land-based Patriot batteries.
It shows our determination to protect our citizens from the threat of ballistic missiles.
Now, of course, Patriot missiles are a key component of the U.S. air defense.
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Patriots, which are surface-to-air missiles, have been deployed to Turkey to protect the country.
In the United States, half of the uranium is obtained from obsolete nuclear missiles.
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Assume half of those missiles were fired by the Americans and half by the British.
Not by pressing some button and firing a bunch of missiles but simply by doing nothing.
Many items will still be banned from Somalia, including surface-to-air missiles, large-calibre guns, howitzers and cannons.
The first involves disabling CTGF with human antibodies, the guided missiles of the immune system.
The US Navy used Vieques between 1941 and 2003 to practice firing rockets, missiles and bombs.
The United States should maintain a robust force of survivably deployed, highly accurate land-based ballistic missiles.
China and the U.S. also promised to stop targeting strategic nuclear missiles at each other.
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