Japan simply wants to fend off missile threats to its territory.
Meanwhile, American officials have been exploring with the Russians and others whether a deal might be done to head off further missile sales.
If warding off the missile threat were only a matter of building shields and hunkering down under them, the problem might seem a fairly simple one.
On transporter erector-launchers, they simply erect it, fire off a ballistic missile, put it down, cover it up.
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His officials point to Mr Kim's promise to hold off from further missile tests, and his readiness to live up to North Korea's commitments under the 1994 nuclear deal, as evidence of success.
They are more willing than Clinton was to think about taking U.S. missile forces off alert status, and they are open to other suggestions for reducing nuclear risk.
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Biden -- and for that matter Secretary Perry -- may be saying that they would support the deployment of a sea-based missile defense off the coast of North Korea provided the system so deployed was compliant with the ABM Treaty.
On May 28, 1959 a rhesus monkey named Able and a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker blasted off on an American Jupiter missile and became the first primates to successfully travel into space and return to Earth alive.
Yet, after nearly a year's delay, and with the financing almost back on track, it is making preparations to blast off another potentially deal-wrecking missile.
South Korea's defense ministry said North Korea fired three missiles into waters off the Korean peninsula on Saturday, followed by a fourth missile Sunday.
If the deal is approved, Northrop will sell off the cars-parts division and hold on to the missile and space business, which brings satellite know-how with it.
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And recently Israel and America conducted large-scale missile-defence exercises to demonstrate their ability to fend off possible retaliation by Iran.
The talks are expected to focus on the Middle East, the stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme, North Korea's missile tests, energy security and the Balkans.
The Clinton Administration believes the threat of missile attack, if it exists at all, is far off in the distance.
The move prompted the Soviet Union under Nikita Kruschev to build missile bases in Cuba in order to protect the island from U.S. overthrow, setting off a Cold War between the two superpowers.
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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.
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