U.S. scraps missile-defense test as target goes astray
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The United States scuttled on Friday a key test of an emerging ballistic missile-defense shield after a dummy missile that was to have been the system's target went astray over the Pacific.
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The Bush administration&#39;s ambitious national missile defense program suffered a major setback on Wednesday when a malfunction forced a shutdown of the first test
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Nicaragua on Wednesday destroyed 334 surface-to-air missiles it obtained from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, in keeping with a U.S. request that it scrap its missile stockpile, the army said.
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The shuttle Atlantis has cleared the way for a Defense Department effort to shoot down a failed spy satellite.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan successfully test-fired a short-range, nuclear-capable missile Monday in its efforts to beef up its national defense, a Defense Ministry official said.
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President Bush's planned ballistic  missile shield suffered another setback on Monday when an  interceptor missile again failed to launch during a test of the  U.S. missile defense system.
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What the Bush administration had hoped would be a triumphant achievement is clouded by doubts, even within the Pentagon, about whether a missile defense system that is on its way to costing more than $100 billion will work.
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A test of a missile defense system successfully intercepted a ballistic target, the U.S. military said on Saturday, a boost to development of an anti-missile shield program.
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A test of the national missile defense system failed Monday when an interceptor missile did not launch from its island base in the Pacific Ocean, the military said. It was the second failure in months for the experimental program.
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A defiant North Korea test-fired a long-range missile Wednesday that may be capable of reaching America, but it failed seconds after launch, U.S. officials said. The North also tested four of shorter range in an exercise the White House termed &quot;a provocation&quot; but not an immediate threat.
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The missile test drew an annoyed reaction from the United States and a dismissive one from South Korea.
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The weapon that the Pentagon wants to use to shoot down a failing satellite is well-tested.  But its one weakness could pose a problem, as the military tries to take that satellite out.
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The first flight test in nearly two  years of a planned U.S. missile-defense shield has been  scrapped two days in a row this week because of bad weather,  the Pentagon said on Friday.
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Description: An interceptor missile in the Pentagon&#39;s missile defense program fails to deploy in a test Wednesday. NPR&#39;s Michele Norris talks with a major critic of the current missile defense program, Philip Coyle.
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The U.S. military shot down a target   ballistic missile over the Pacific Friday in the widest test of   its emerging antimissile shield in 18 months, a witness to the   test told Reuters.
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A test of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile ended in failure Thursday when it fell into the sea shortly after its launch from a nuclear submarine, the Defense Ministry said.
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An attempt to launch an interceptor missile as part of the US missile defence shield failed early Wednesday in the first test of the system in nearly two years.