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	Serious missile defense. (US antiballistic missile defenses)
		Anti-ballistic missile defenses would not be useful for preventing global nuclear war but would help the US to quell regional crises.
		Shooting at missiles soon after launch, while their engines are boosting, reduces the need to rush equipment around the world to cover changing threats, and eliminates the worry that the equipment sent to any given place might not match the kind of missile that would actually be launched against it.
		Missile defense: winning minds, not hearts: the U.S. plan to build a global missile defense has been gaining international support, but not because other governments believe it will make their countries safer.(Cover Story)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-18262507.html (1969 words)

	Missile defense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Missile Defense is a term referring to systems, weapon programs, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception and destruction of attacking missiles.
		Ballistic missiles can be intercepted in three regions of their trajectory: boost phase, midcourse phase or terminal phase.
		In the 1950s, the first United States antiballistic missile system was the Nike Hercules, which had a limited ability to intercept incoming ballistic missiles, although not ICBMs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missile_defense (1563 words)

	Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons.
		By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system (see Project Nike) had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a "real" ABM system.
		Supporters of the withdrawal argued that it was a necessity in order to test and build a limited National Missile Defense to protect the United States from nuclear flmail by a rogue state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty (1594 words)

	KTUU.com \| Alaska's news and information source \| Inside Alaska's antiballistic missile system
		The components of Fort Greeley's antiballistic missile system are sprawled out across some 800 acres of land near the town of Delta Junction.
		The antiballistic missile system works like this; if a country like North Korea launches a rocket towards the US, the plume from that rocket is detected by a satellite orbiting in space.
		They argue that the antiballistic missile system is merely a dream that won't work and that the military is wasting millions of tax payer's dollars.
	www.ktuu.com /Global/story.asp?S=6434986 (953 words)

	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) (narrative)
		By 1966 the Soviet Union had begun to deploy an antiballistic missile defense around Moscow; and that year the Peoples Republic of China successfully tested a nuclear missile.
		The huge payload capacity of some Soviet missiles ("throw-weight") was seen as a possible threat to U.S. land-based strategic missiles even in heavily protected ("hardened") launch-sites.
		After initial attempts to reach a comprehensive agreement failed, the Soviets sought to restrict negotiations to antiballistic missile systems, maintaining that limitations on offensive systems should be deferred.
	www.state.gov /t/ac/trt/5191.htm (1546 words)

	AGH Review -- Missile Command (PC)
		Several antiballistic missile (ABM) bases have been created, and it's your responsibility as base commander to protect and defend the cities.
		The enemy begins by firing interplanetary ballistic missiles which are aimed to destroy your cities and missile base, and it's your task to stop the enemy before your happy and harmonious planet is destroyed.
		All in all, Missile Command is yet another update done right, and is good enough to stand on its own without having to rely on its namesake to draw attention of modern game players.
	www.atarihq.com /reviews/pc/missile_command.html (746 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Testing Arrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the foregoing suggests, Israel's primary aim in owning antiballistic missiles such as the Arrow is to counter the threat of Iranian and Syrian missiles and other missiles in the Arab and Islamic countries.
		Mid- and long-range ballistic missiles are a relatively recent factor in the strategic equations of the Middle East.
		In order for a country to protect itself from such a threat, it has the pre-emptive option, which is to strike the missiles before they are launched, or the defensive option, which is to intercept them after they are fired and before they reach their target.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/706/re9.htm (3139 words)

	Preemption option: a must for Israel \| csmonitor.com
		Its missile defense system is not enough to defend against a nuclear or biological attack from Iran or other aggressors.
		This means that Israel cannot depend upon its antiballistic missiles to defend against any future attack by Iran using a weapon of mass destruction.
		Ballistic missile defense is indispensable for Israel, but it is also critical for both Jerusalem and Washington that Iran's nuclear infrastructures be destroyed at their source.
	www.csmonitor.com /2007/0227/p09s01-coop.htm (650 words)

	Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile - BlogDict def. of intermediate range ballistic missile
		Some types with names indicating their range or function are: antiaircraft missile; ballistic missile; cruise missile; antiballistic missile missile; air-to-air missile; air-to-ground missile; guided missile; intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM); intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM); surface-to-air missile.
		A rocket-propelled missile of long range which is guided only during the powered portion of its flight, which usually takes only a small part of the total flight time; -- contrasted with guided missile.
		Note: Ballistic missiles are sometimes referred to by their range, such as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) or an intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM).
	www.blogdict.com /glossary/intermediate+range+ballistic+missile.html (192 words)

	AtariAge - Atari 2600 Manuals (HTML) - Missile Command (Atari)
		Cruise missiles look like satellites, but they are just as deadly as the interplanetary ballistic missiles.
		the enemy fires interplanetary ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, both of which are aimed to destroy your cities and missile base.
		There are only two types of cruise missiles; smart cruise missiles, which try to evade your anti- ballistic missiles (ABMs), and dumb cruise missiles, which fall in a straight path.
	www.atariage.com /manual_html_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=930 (1570 words)

	The Militant - July 30, 2001 -- U.S. rulers press ahead with missile shield system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bush-backed missile plan proposes building a "test bed" in Alaska that would include a command center and five missile silos at Fort Greely, near Fairbanks, and another five silos on Kodiak Island, off the southern Alaskan coast.
		In June in a meeting with NATO defense ministers, U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld made clear to his European counterparts that the Pentagon intends to move as swiftly as possible to develop and deploy an antiballistic missile shield, even before testing of the system is completed.
		The Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed by the U.S. and Soviet governments in 1972, allows research, development, and limited deployment of ground-based antiballistic systems, but forbids deployment of a shield against long-range missiles in any state except North Dakota.
	www.themilitant.com /2001/6529/652905.html (1117 words)

	IV. THE ABM TREATY AND BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
		Moreover, the launch of Chinese ballistic missiles in 1996 against targets north and south of Taiwan serves to underscore that the risks associated with Chinese ballistic missiles are not simply those of an unauthorized or accidental launch.
		The treaty limits ABM systems that are defined as systems "to counter strategic ballistic missiles or their elements in flight trajectory." Since TMD systems are aimed not at countering strategic ballistic missiles but at shorter-range theater ballistic missiles, they are outside the scope of the ABM Treaty.
		The problem is that the term "strategic ballistic missiles" is not defined in the ABM Treaty, leaving open the question of what constitutes a "strategic ballistic missile" as opposed to a "theater ballistic missile." The situation is complicated further by Article VI of the treaty.
	www.fas.org /spp/eprint/cfr_nc_4.htm (3185 words)

	At issue: Proposed Missile Defense System
		I believe that it would be a grave mistake for President Bush to abrogate the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty, which has been the cornerstone of nuclear deterrence.
		Furthermore, missile defenses do nothing to discourage proliferation, and may make the problem worse by stimulating buildups in offensive nuclear forces around the world.
		Finally, countries such as China and North Korea that have been major suppliers of missile technology may react to U.S. missile defenses by refusing to cooperate on nonproliferation efforts and increasing their missile exports.
	www.stanford.edu /~parrine/missles.html (604 words)

	OpinionJournal - Outside the Box
		North Korea is selling its missile technology to other nations, and Iraq has substantial stockpiles of bioterrorism toxins that could be launched on a missile.
		Thus we face an increasing threat of a missile attack on America, from nations, in President Bush's words, "for whom terror and flmail are a way of life" countries "gripped by an implacable hatred of the United States of America." These nations "hate our values. .;.
		Then there is the argument that because we can't stop every missile in a multiple-missile launch--say from China, which has two dozen ICBMs now, it is useless to try and stop any; if we can't defend against 100% of the threat, we shouldn't defend against any of it.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pdupont/?id=95001701 (1000 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		Since each enemy missile may carry several nuclear warheads, along with a large number of decoys, the one hundred interceptors could be overwhelmed.
		A missile destroyed in the boost phase will never reach its intended target—whether it is Washington or Paris or American forces abroad.
		One approach to a national missile defense would be to deploy interceptors on naval ships, possibly on Aegis cruisers, which could then be positioned as necessary.
	www.aei.org /publications/filter.foreign,pubID.11754/pub_detail.asp (902 words)

	Physics Today January 2004- Article: Boost-Phase Defense Against Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
		If the capabilities of the missile and its flight path are known exactly, that time can be determined by using plots like figure 1, which shows the ground tracks of ICBM trajectories from North Korea and Iran to various points in the US.
		The ABL would disable a missile by using a megawatt laser to heat it until it becomes too weak to withstand the dynamic loads to which it is subjected as it accelerates.
		The skin of a liquid-propellant missile is thin and relatively fragile, whereas the shell of a solid-propellant missile is the missile's combustion chamber, designed to withstand very high temperatures and pressures.
	www.physicstoday.org /vol-57/iss-1/p30.html (4223 words)

	U.N. Opposes U.S. Plan for Antimissile Defense
		It calls for continued efforts to strengthen and preserve the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the then Soviet Union, which limits missile defenses.
		It calls on the parties to the ABM treaty "to refrain from the deployment of antiballistic missile systems for the defense of the territory of their country and not to provide a base for such a defense.''
		But neither country has a national missile defense such as the one the United States wants to deploy on a limited scale that would not be sufficient to neutralize Russia's large nuclear force.
	www.space.com /news/un_antimissile_991202_wg.html (463 words)

	The Arrow Missile Program
		It is supposed to detect and track missiles as far away as 300 miles and then disable the incoming warhead by exploding within 40 to 50 yards of the target.
		The missile was tested to determine whether chemical agents would reach the ground after an interception if a warhead was loaded with a chemical weapon.
		The Arrow successfully intercepted the missile during the test to expand its range to a higher altitude and to evaluate the interface between the Arrow and the Patriot missile system.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/Arrow.html (831 words)

	Rude awakening to missile-defense dream
		This test probably invalidated the entire premise and technology used in the National Missile Defense (NMD) system currently being developed and deployed by the Bush administration, and at the same time called into question the validity of the administration's entire approach to arms control and disarmament.
		With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the threat to the U.S. from a deliberate or accidental ballistic missile attack by former Soviet states or by China was judged highly unlikely.
		SS-25 missiles were produced at a greatly reduced rate, and the next generation missile, a joint Russian-Ukrainian design, was scrapped after a few prototypes were produced, but never launched.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7611.htm (838 words)

	US Antiballistic Missile Defense: Deployment
		After inspecting captured German missile plants and test facilities, in July 1945, the scientists recommended that the United States initiate a research and development effort to defend against rockets like the V-2.
		Rather than building a completely new missile system, it proposed adapting much of the same missile and guidance technology from its Nike Ajax and promising Nike Hercules antiaircraft missile systems for use in the antiballistic missile program.
		That drawback negated an important defensive advantage because target identification, the process of sorting out the real warheads from the decoys and expended stages, is easier at low altitude due to the fact that with the exception of the reentry vehicles, most of the other hardware burns up when it enters the earth's atmosphere.
	www.techbastard.com /missile/abmdevelopment.php (1601 words)

	IEER: A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense
		In this context, it is not impossible to understand the need for a limited missile defense, if it is truly limited, especially for a global power as the United States, which has vast overseas presence and interests, often in turn a reason to invite attack.
		With the enhanced dialogue that emerged between China and the U.S. in the missile area, the two countries signed a joint statement in October 1996, reaffirming China's promise and obligation of not exporting ground-to-ground missiles inherently capable of reaching a range of 300 kilometers with a payload of 500 kilograms.
		A limited anti-ballistic missile capability, as allowed by the existing ABM Treaty, would be enough to defend the strategic assets of the U.S. against potential missile threats from outside the P5.
	www.ieer.org /latest/shen-ppr.html (3711 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. quits ABM treaty - December 14, 2001
		Bush believes such a system is critical for U.S. defense in the 21st century, and for months he has advocated scrapping the ABM treaty, calling it a relic from a much different time, a theme he repeated on Thursday.
		But White House officials said missile defense testing would soon "bump" into the ABM treaty, and the president felt it was best to proceed with withdrawal.
		The Chinese, who have a much smaller nuclear arsenal than Russia, are concerned that the U.S. national missile defense plan could be used to block their missiles, thereby upsetting the nuclear balance of power.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/12/13/rec.bush.abm (1591 words)

	Missile Command®
		Several antiballistic missile bases have been established within the cities of Zardon.
		Your only defense is to fire back with antiballistic missiles.
		Use your antiballistic missiles (ABMs) to stop the enemy before your happy and harmonious planet is destroyed.
	www.atari.com /us/images/games/FBK2/manual/missilecommand.htm (216 words)

	NCPA National Security/Defense - ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSES FALL SHORT OF PROTECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The experience of Israel, which was struck by missiles during the 1991 Gulf War, shows the need for ballistic defenses, says Codevilla.
		And since nearly 1,000 missiles now threaten Israel from mobile and buried launchers, attacking them is even less likely to be successful in the future.
		However, to comply with the ABM Treaty, all U.S. defensive missiles are designed to be incapable of intercepting warheads traveling faster than 3 km per second, and they do not use satellite data on incoming warheads.
	www.ncpa.org /pi/congress/pdns/pdns26.html (404 words)

	Cold War Leftovers - Missile Defenses
		In 1972, construction of the additional installations was halted as the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to cap the number of interceptor missiles each possessed as part of the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
		Spartan missiles were 55 feet long and had a range of over 400 miles.
		Spartan missiles were designed to shoot down enemy warheads before they reentered the atmosphere.
	www.duotone.com /coldwar/abm (392 words)

	Global NNetwork - Development of Antiballistic Missile Systems vs
		It is projected in the plan that the country will deploy its second generation system for National Missile Defense in the year 2020, with many weapons and sensors moving into space then to improve surveillance and strike capabilities for land, sea and air.
		The operational principle of NMD is that the space-based sensors would provide global, continuous surveillance and tracking of adversary missiles, then interceptors would intercept them at the altitude of 100 to 500 kilometers which means in outer space.
		For example, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) of 1972 prohibits the testing and deployment of strategic missile defense systems in outer space by state parties and also prohibits the development and deployment of national missile defense systems.
	www.space4peace.org /ethics/dabm.htm (1617 words)

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