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	Regulus missile
		The SSM-N-8A Regulus cruise missile was the nuclear deterrent weapon employed by the United States Navy from 1955 to 1964.
		RAM converted the Regulus cruise missiles into a remotely piloted vehicle[?] (RPV): Regulus missiles would be launched from cruisers or submarines, and once in flight, guided to their targets by carrier-based pilots with remote-control equipment.
		A second-generation supersonic Regulus II cruise missile with a range of 1,200 nautical miles and a speed of Mach 2 was developed and successfully tested, but the program was canceled in favor of the Polaris ballistic nuclear missile.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/re/Regulus_missile.html (0 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Ballistic Missile Defence
		Missile defence was well down on the agenda in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
		The incoming missile is knocked out by the energy that is transferred in the collision between the two missiles.
		In February 1996, when the U.S. announced its intention to develop the missile defence system, the plan was to have the technology working by 1999 and the system deployed by 2002.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/us_missiledefence (0 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: U.S. anti-missile defense system still a long shot
		Missile defense languished until 2002, when Bush withdrew from the treaty.
		The allure of striking enemy missiles in the boost phase is that they are easily identified by their plumes soon after launch and, because they are ascending, cannot use their full bag of tricks to dodge and deceive.
		To destroy a missile in the boost phase requires an unprecedented coordination of space-based sensors, signal-analysis computers, interceptor agility and enough thrust to lift a 10-ton object to about 20 times the speed of sound in less than a minute.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002130878_missile26.html (0 words)

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	National Postal Museum
		The missile was fired from the submarine shortly before noon and arrived at Mayport twenty-two minutes later.
		The 3,000 letters inside the missile were identical letters from the Postmaster General that were addressed to President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, cabinet members and top federal officials, all members of congress, Supreme Court justices, U.S. governors, postmasters generals from around the world and the officers and crew of the Barbero.
		Ostensibly an experiment in communication transportation, the Regulus’ mail flight sent a subtle signal that in the midst of the Cold War, the US military was capable of such accuracy in missile flight that it could be considered for use by the post office.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /museum/1d_RegulusMail.html (0 words)

	USS Barbero
		Her hull classification symbol was accordingly changed to SSG-317 and she was recommissioned on 28 October 1955.
		In Mayport, the Regulus was opened and the mail forwarded to the Jacksonville, Florida, Post Office for further sorting and routing.
		She was struck from the Naval Vessel Registry on 1 July 1964, prior to being used as a target and sunk by USS Greenfish (SS-351)[?] on 7 October 1964, off Pearl Harbor.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Barbero.html (0 words)

	Rocket mail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The collection of philatelic material used for (and depicting) rocket mail is a specialist branch of aerophilately known as astrophilately.
		The first successful delivery of mail by a rocket in the United States was made on 23 February 1936, when two rockets that were launched from the New Jersey shore of Greenwood Lake landed on the New York shore, some 300 metres away.
		Mail is delivered by rocket in an early chapter of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missile_Mail (0 words)

	Cut and Delay is the Wrong Policy for Missile Defense
		The Bush Administration is constructing missile defense systems so that by later this year, the United States will have an operational capability to defend its people against limited ballistic missile strikes.
		As a result, the nation's missile defense capabilities lag behind the ongoing expansion of the ballistic missile threat.
		Congressional critics of missile defense are relying on two spurious contentions to support their arguments for delaying the achievement of an operational defense and for cutting the missile defense budget:
	www.heritage.org /Research/MissileDefense/em934.cfm (0 words)

	Countering North Korea's Missiles: The Missile Defense System the U.S. Should Have
		First, the missile defense system is still in development, and it has an embedded operational capability because the system has to be built in order to test it.
		According the Director of the Missile Defense Agency, Lt. General Henry A. Obering, in his March 9, 2006, testimony before the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, the Navy is seeking to field up to 20 Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors on four Aegis ships by the end of this year.
		If the missile turns out to be a medium-range missile and is launched over the ocean—for example, in the direction of the U.S. territory of Guam or U.S. ally Japan—the SM-3 missile has the theoretical capable of performing an intercept.
	www.heritage.org /Research/MissileDefense/wm1138.cfm (0 words)

	MissileThreat ::
		America’s complete vulnerability to ballistic missile attack increases with the proliferation of ballistic missile technology throughout the globe.
		An explanation of what ballistic missiles are, how to defend against them, and the fundamental issues which drive the debate over whether or not to defend America.
		Ballistic missiles may be destroyed during their flight using systems based on land, sea, air, or space.
	www.missilethreat.com /systems/patriot_pac-3_usa.html (0 words)

	Welcome To The Retro Future
		The letter-carrying missile, whose payload included a letter from President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, blasted off from the Navy submarine Barbero and landed safely, radiation-free, at a U.S. Naval Station in Mayport, FL.
		The 1959 "missile mail" experiment employed a state-of-the-art guidance system, capable of accurately delivering a 2800 kiloton thermonuclear weapon from 600 miles away.
		Each bears a 4-cent stamp with a picture of a Regulus rocket and the caption "first official missile mail." Since the Post Office dropped plans to use rocket mail, they are particularly valuable.
	www.retrofuture.com /rocketmail.html (0 words)

	Join our Missile Defense Group. \| MDAA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We invite you to become a member of our missile defense group alliance to advocate missile defense to protect our way of life, our families, communities, nation, and the world.
		When you join as a member of our missile defense group, you are on your way to making a difference in the nation's and world's missile defense systems.
		MDAA recruits, organizes and mobilizes missile defense proponents to deliver positive public support for the testing, development, deployment and expansion of missile defense.
	www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org /index/join/membership (0 words)

	Battlestar Galactica space toys Replaced by Mattel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The "Missile Mail-In" plan offers parents and children the opportunity to mail all of their remaining small 1-1/4 inch red plastic missiles to Mattel and receive in return a free "Hot Wheels" car.
		Mattel and the Consumer Product Safety Commission stated that the Mail-In program was initiated to remove the possibility of an accident and to inform parents of the need to caution children regarding small objects of any type which might be put in the mouth.
		In addition to the mail program, Mattel announced that it has redesigned the four "Battlestar Galactica" toys for 1979 so that, missiles cannot be launched from the body of the toys.
	www.cpsc.gov /cpscpub/prerel/prhtml79/79001.html (0 words)

	MissileThreat :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The road-mobile missile was launched from an undisclosed location as part of a training exercise by the Pakistani Army’s Strategic Force Command.
		The Hatf-3, essentially an improved “Scud” type ballistic missile with a range of 290 km (180 miles), would be of use for striking large, fixed targets such as military bases, airfields, and cities.
		According to Missile Defense Agency spokesman Chris Taylor, a dummy enemy ballistic missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, simulating a missile attack on U.S. territory, while a shorter-range missile was fired from a Navy aircraft and aimed at the Aegis cruiser U.S.S. Lake Erie.
	www.missilethreat.com (0 words)

	BASIC Paper 42
		The Socialdemocrats fear that the missile defence plans will lead to a new arms race and are concerned that it will not be able to address the problems of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
		As regards a study of a limited defence against long-range missiles, this is of particular relevance because of the spread of weapons of mass destruction and modern missile technology.
		In a wide ranging speech at the Foreign Policy Centre on 13 November, Geoff Hoon reminded his audience that NATO was already examining the “threat to deployed forces from ballistic missiles” and that “it also needs to look carefully at the emerging threat from ballistic missiles to the territory and population centres of NATO nations”.
	www.basicint.org /pubs/Papers/BP42.htm (0 words)

	History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993
		History proved differently, but this experiment with missile mail exemplifies the pioneering spirit of the Post Office Department when it came to developing faster, better ways of moving the mail.
		Arguably the most remote mail route in the country, the Supai route is the last mule train delivery in the United States.
		The change in character of the mail, the tremendous increase in mail volume, and the revolution in transportation, coupled with the steep rise in manpower costs, made adoption of modern technology imperative and helped produce the ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) Code.
	www.usps.com /history/his2_75.htm (1020 words)

	CNN.com - Russia 'regrets' Bush missile plan - Dec. 18, 2002
		CNN's Jamie McIntyre says the U.S. goal is a missile defense system in place by 2004 at a cost of nearly $10 billion.
		The U.S. argues that a missile defence system is necessary to protect the country against possible attack, primarily from rogue states that could possess ballistic missiles.
		Development of missile defence systems was severely limited under the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which expired in June, six months after Bush announced that Washington would withdraw from the 30-year old agreement.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/12/18/missile.requests/index.html (0 words)

	CNN - Test successful for U.S. missile interceptor - October 3, 1999
		The unarmed Minuteman missile carrying a dummy warhead and a decoy balloon was launched Saturday evening from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a flight over the Pacific.
		The effort comes as nations such as North Korea, Iran and Syria are, according to the CIA, developing long-range missiles that could hit the United States.
		This was the first test of the kill vehicle missile's ability to destroy a target by smashing into it.
	www.cnn.com /US/9910/03/missile.defense/index.html (0 words)

	Arms Control Association: Fact Sheets:
		In addition, the Pentagon’s ground- and sea-based missile interceptors have experienced schedule and testing delays due to problems with their kill vehicles, which are the components intended to seek out and collide with enemy warheads.
		Short- and medium-range ballistic missiles are referred to as theater ballistic missiles, whereas ICBMs or long-range ballistic missiles are described as strategic ballistic missiles.
		The key element of the ground-based midcourse defense is a ground-based missile interceptor consisting of a powerful multistage booster and an exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), which separates from the booster in space and seeks out its target through radar updates and use of its onboard visual and infrared sensors.
	www.armscontrol.org /factsheets/usmissiledefense.asp (0 words)

	CNN.com - Bush rolls out missile defense system - Dec. 18, 2002
		Officials say the plan calls for the first battery of interceptors to be deployed by 2004, with an additional battery scheduled to be in place within a year or two of that.
		Bush made missile defense a key promise of his 2000 campaign, and early in his administration he was sharply criticized by many Democrats, Russia, China and several key European allies for pushing to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 so he could pursue the program.
		The goal of a missile defense shield dates to the Reagan administration, when the program was labeled by some as "Star Wars" and at times has included talk of space-based systems.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/US/12/17/bush.missile/index.html (0 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Military -- San Diego-based warships to help ward off missile threat
		WASHINGTON – When North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles July 4, the U.S. national missile defense system was on operational alert, even though a long string of test failures made most experts doubt the land-based interceptors could stop a threatening warhead.
		But with the recent certification of an improved version of the Aegis missile combat system aboard the Shiloh, the Navy is “fielding an engagement capability” against a range of ballistic missiles, Hicks said.
		By the end of 2008, the Navy will have 18 ships capable of engaging short-to intermediate-range missiles and will be developing the capability to kill the same intercontinental-range missiles that the land-based defense is supposed to stop, the admiral said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/military/20060924-9999-1n24missiles.html (0 words)

	USATODAY.com - Trained eye can see right through box of weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The effectiveness of earlier Hezbollah missile attacks, the belief that it had only a handful of the anti-ship missiles at the war's start and Iran's role as the group's principal source of weapons fed this concern, they said.
		Iran also trained Hezbollah fighters in the operation of the missile system and sent advisers to Lebanon to assist in the missiles' use, according to John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
		Iran bought 60 of the missiles, sometimes mislabeled "Silkworms," between the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and 1997, when protests by the Clinton administration led China to suspend sales.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-08-17-missiles-iran_x.htm (0 words)

	rediff.com: SRFI hit by hoax e-mail
		The Squash Rackets Federation of India was hit by one such ''fake e-mail missile'' on November 9 with somebody emboldened to put out one to the World Squash Federation, saying that Chennai could host the postponed World Open Professional Championships, originally allotted to Bombay.
		The e-mail, purportedly put out by Cyrus Poncha, India's official national squash coach, suggested to the world federation that the World Open, which was originally scheduled to be held in Bombay next month but put off due to the US-led attack on Afghanistan, could be held in Chennai, the headquarters of the national federation.
		The hoax e mail also says: "Mr N Ramachandran's financial condition is very strong and has requested the WSF members to allot all the 5 World Opens, which was alloted to Procam from Mumbai to his company India Cements Ltd.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2001/nov/10squash.htm (0 words)

	N. Korea: Don't Sanction Us, Diplomat Warns Pyong Yang Would 'Take All-Out Countermeasures' - CBS News
		The missiles are either short- or medium-range, reported Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea's largest dailies, citing an unidentified senior South Korean official.
		Han was quoted as saying that the missile launches were part of a regular military drill "to counter escalating acts of provocation from North Korea's enemies...
		The U.S. doesn't know what the missile was carrying, but as David Martin reports, there's little doubt N. Korea is trying to develop an intercontinental missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon.
	uttm.com /stories/2006/07/05/world/main1778928.shtml (0 words)

	The Rocketmail Page
		Although Rocket Mail was originally developed to deliver mail to isolated locations, it is currently used primarily to commemorate events or to promote rocketry and space travel.
		The first "Rocket Mail" generally accepted by collectors was flown on Feb. 2, 1931 when 102 covers and cards were launched by Friedrich Schmiedl near Radegund, Austria.
		Go here and search under "rocket mail", "rocket cover" and "missile mail" (with quotation marks) to see if there are any current offerings.
	home.ionet.net /~paroales/ROCKET.HTM (0 words)

	REDSTONE
		Also known as the Army's "Old Reliable," the REDSTONE was a highly accurate, liquid propelled, surface-to-surface missile capable of transporting nuclear or conventional warheads against targets at ranges up to approximately 200 miles.
		31 July 58 A REDSTONE missile was fired to an altitude in excess of 200,000 feet and a nuclear device of a megaton was detonated.
		Of the 37 missiles flight tested for research and development purposes, 27 were successfully launched.
	www.redstone.army.mil /history/systems/redstone/welcome.html (0 words)

	SSM-N-8 Regulus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In August 1947, the specifications for the project, now named "Regulus," were issued: carry a 3,000 pound (1,360 kg) warhead, to a range of 500 nautical miles (926 km), at Mach 0.85, with a circular error probable (CEP) of 0.5 percent of the range.
		RAM converted the Regulus cruise missiles into an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): Regulus missiles would be launched from cruisers or submarines, and once in flight, guided to their targets by carrier based pilots with remote control equipment.
		A second generation supersonic Regulus II cruise missile with a range of 1,200 nautical miles (2,200 km) and a speed of Mach 2 was developed and successfully tested, but the program was canceled in favor of the Polaris ballistic nuclear missile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regulus_missile (0 words)

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