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.
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On Sunday, India was scheduled to conduct another test in its ongoing development and evaluation of its indigenous BMD system. A Prithvi-II missile was launched from the Indian state of Orissa and an intercept was supposed to launch from an island off the coast nearby. The intercept missile, however, failed to launch.