Bush State of Union Includes NMD Pledge
In his annual State of the Union Address, President Bush pledged to “develop and deploy effective missile defenses to protect America and our allies from sudden attack. We’ll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.”
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Successful Test of Aegis Sea-Based Interceptor
The Missile Defense Agency successfully tested the Navy’s ship-based missile defense system. The test involved the interception of a dummy rocket launched from Hawaii by a “kinetic warhead” missile fired from the USS
Erie Aegis cruiser. The test boosts the practicability of using already-in service Aegis cruisers as the foundation for a sea-based defense.
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National Intelligence Estimate on the Foreign Ballistic Missile Threat
The National Intelligence Council released the latest report on
Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat Through 2015. The report concludes that the missile threat to the United States has increased since 1999 and that any future analyses of the missile threat must also include the threat posed by rogue nations and terrorist groups.
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