As you deploy more capability, interceptor capability and more ships with radars, the ability to protect more and more of Europe will increase with the threat moving from short- to medium-range missiles today to intermediate-range ballistic missiles, and in phase four of our system to intercontinental ballistic missiles by 2020.
Direct ascent interceptors such as exo-atmospheric ABM missiles, ballistic missiles with modified guidance logic, space boosters carrying nuclear payloads, and homing vehicles such as the miniature vehicle system undergoing development by the United States.
The first leg of the New Triad incorporates conventional capabilities together with the traditional strategic Nuclear Triad, which is composed of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) and long-range nuclear-armed bombers.
Thus, the U.S. has sought to organize its nuclear forces so that no enemy can launch a disarming first strike, mainly by fielding three distinctly different types of weapons: manned bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles in hardened silos, and sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles on stealthy Trident submarines.
Defense will continue to be outlawed against intercontinental ballistic missiles, while defense will be encouraged against their less capable cousins, theater ballistic missiles.
It appears that Putin hopes to engineer a "re-do" of the 1983 deployment of U.S. ground-launched cruise missiles and Pershing II ballistic missiles in five West European countries.
Finally, to recover the importance of the nuclear mission within the Department of Defense and to maintain the critical delivery systems that constitute the three legs of the triad itself, we must do planning, programming, and budgeting for follow-on nuclear weapons delivery systems, which would include cruise missiles, warplanes, ballistic missiles, and strategic submarines.
During the Cold War we had a nuclear triad of manned bombers, submarine-launched missiles and land-based ballistic missiles.
The U.S. plan is to place in Poland a small number of interceptor missiles -- starting with 10 -- that could stop ballistic missiles launched by Iran or other countries.
These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
ICBMs are ground-launched ballistic missiles capable of traveling long distances and penetrating heavily defended areas.
Iran and Pakistan have already used North Korean materials to develop domestic ballistic missiles.
It is a Strategic Defense Initiative aimed ultimately at finding a nonnuclear defense against ballistic missiles.
It shows our determination to protect our citizens from the threat of ballistic missiles.
Tokyo wants Pyongyang to stop using Japanese airspace as a convenient test range for ballistic missiles.
The United States should maintain a robust force of survivably deployed, highly accurate land-based ballistic missiles.
The deployment of strategic defenses (SDI) against ballistic missiles is an urgent national defense priority.
For example, their SA-12 missile, nominally an anti-aircraft missile, also has capability against tactical ballistic missiles.
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These are widely recognized as far less conducive to a first-strike than are short-time-of-flight ballistic missiles.
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The committee oversees production of ballistic missiles and supervises North Korea's main conduit for arms dealings.
By 2005, the Pentagon estimates, some 800 short-range ballistic missiles could be in Beijing's arsenal.
Second, the Russians are reintroducing multiple, independently-targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) on their land-based ballistic missiles.
First, Iran has reportedly reached an agreement with Venezuela to deploy ballistic missiles on Venezuelan territory.
Its ostensible purpose is to enhance efforts to curb the proliferation of ballistic missiles.
More than two dozen nations either already possess long-range ballistic missiles or will soon have them.
For example, theater ballistic missiles could deploy chemical or biological submunitions shortly after boost.
Kadish's words, "eliminate the opportunity for the earliest possible contingency against medium-range ballistic missiles abroad"?
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The Pentagon says China is developing sophisticated short-range ballistic missiles and lethal antiship cruise missiles.
Such defenses have the potential to intercept ballistic missiles early in their flight, i.e.
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