The greatest strategic threat to the United States is an attack by one or more ballistic missiles armed with nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. Today, the United States remains completely vulnerable to this form of attack.
Missilethreat.com is dedicated to explaining this threat, and the urgent need for robust and layered missile defenses. Systems based on land, sea, air, and in space which are capable of intercepting a missile during any phase of its flight are necessary to provide for the common defense.
On April 7, the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducted a successful test of the "Arrow" ballistic missile defense system. The system—a joint venture of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. and Boeing—was started as a response to the U.S. military's inability to intercept Scud rockets fired on Israel by Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.