Park officials are working to recover a missile base used in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

In two thousand six, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advised President George W.Bush to base a missile defense system in Europe.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Several administration officials said earlier Tuesday that Obama's letter suggested that Russia could have a role in reducing Iran's nuclear threat, and therefore could dissuade the United States from going forward with its plans to establish a missile base in Poland and a radar facility in the Czech Republic.

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But what Poland wants, especially if the missile-defence base is cancelled, is practical preparations, such as regular manoeuvres, and fuel and ammunition stockpiles.

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Mr Sikorski has also been playing high-stakes poker with America, demanding money for military modernisation, and high-tech defences for Warsaw, in return for hosting a missile-defence base.

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