Missile plan puts region on guard
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Australia risks provoking a regional arms race with plans to dramatically increase its missile strike power by arming new destroyers and its fleet of F/A-18 Hornet fighters with cruise missiles.
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TEHRAN -- An explosion in a southern city some 110 miles from a nuclear facility sparked fears yesterday of a missile attack, and Iranian authorities gave conflicting explanations for the blast, including friendly fire in a military area and construction work.
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"Currently, there's no protection in Europe against the intermediate-range or long-range weapons"  The head of the United States' missile defense program sought Wednesday to bolster Washington's argument for anti-missile sites in Europe by warning that Iran has sped up development of long-range missiles. via The Oregonian
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S. Korea&#39;s secret tests reveal its ability to develop nuclear arms in a region where other nations may have similar ambitions.
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The military is in the final stages of readying its national ballistic missile defense system, with officials predicting it will be activated before year's end. But several questions remain, including how well the experimental missile interceptors work.
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Lithuania said on Thursday it was  worried about Russia&#39;s threat to deploy new missiles in the  neighboring region of Kaliningrad.
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President Bush knows what he wants from Vladimir Putin's visit to his dad's seaside home. Convince Putin that a U.S. missile defense system in Eastern Europe would not threaten Russia. Bring the Kremlin behind tough new penalties aimed at Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Generally defrost relations.
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The top U.S. missile defense official is  in Europe this week to try to convince skeptics like Germany  that the plan will not provoke a new arms race between the West  and Russia, U.S. and European officials said.
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Pentagon space shield plan raises stakes with Russia - and local Czechs.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Washington is putting subtle, but real pressure on Canada to join a proposed missile defence system that won't work anyway, an American scientist says. Ted Postol, a physicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says U.S. authorities warn that Canada will lose its say in continental defence if it takes a pass on the missile system.
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A Russian general has threatened a tough response if the United States goes ahead with a plan to site a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
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Venezuela plans to obtain air defense missiles to guard strategic sites such as oil refineries and major bridges against any air strike, a top military adviser to President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday.
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The commander of Russia's strategic missile force says Russia is capable of targeting U.S. missile defense sites if they are built in the Czech Republic and Poland.Comment
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TOKYO In a once-a-decade defense review, Japan adopted plans on Friday to shift its military focus away from the northern cold war threat of invasion from Russia to guarding against missiles from North Korea or Chinese incursions on Japan&#39;s southernmost
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The top U.S. missile defense official is in Europe this week to try to convince skeptics like Germany that the plan will not provoke a new arms race between the West and Russia, U.S. and European officials said.
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Â· Missile defence would protect big cities by 2010Â· Plan revealed as Pakistan tests short-range missile
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NORTH Korean missile bases are under close surveillance after increased activity detected by US and Japanese surveillance raised fears Pyongyang might be preparing to launch a missile across the Sea of Japan.