US might delay missile defense
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The United States might delay activating its proposed missile defense sites in Europe until it has "definitive proof" of a missile threat from Iran, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
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An experimental interceptor missile failed to get off the ground in a test of the US national missile defense system early Wednesday, raising new doubts about prospects for the imminent activation of the system.
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The debate is delaying a decision about whether to use a strategy of diplomacy or isolation in dealing with Iran.
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The United States will address the threat posed by North Korea&#39;s missiles once the Stalinist state disbands its nuclear weapons program, a State Department official said Friday.
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The United States must make clear to  China it intends to defend its space assets and enlist allies  to counter possible threats from China, which recently tested  an anti-satellite missile, U.S. lawmakers said on Thursday.
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The order to destroy a disabled satellite before it falls from orbit carries opportunity, but also potential embarrassment, for the advocates of a missile defense program.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 15  - The failure of a US interceptor missile test flight is a major blow to US efforts to have a missile defence shield in operation by the end of the year, experts and US media said Thursday.
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The Bush administration is weighing responses to a possible North Korean missile test that include attempting to shoot it down in flight over the Pacific, defense officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Russia says the US should halt plans for a missile defence shield in central Europe, pending further talks.
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The United States needs a shield against what it sees as a growing missile threat from Iran, despite a recent report showing it had halted its nuclear weapons program, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. would proceed with plans to build missile defense sites in Europe but might wait until it has 'âdefinitive proofâ' of a missile threat from Iran to activate them.
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The Bush administration is facing the prospect of a sharp cut by the Democratic-contolled Congress in its request for $310 million to begin development of a missile defense program designed to defend against potential "rogue state" attacks on Europe and the United States.
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The UK and US are discussing whether to site a US anti-ballistic missile defences on UK soil.
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The United States and South Korea plan to  announce on Wednesday a three-year delay in plans to cut the  number of U.S. troops stationed on the Cold War frontline to  protect the U.S. ally against reclusive communist North Korea.
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The US military has been quietly working on an array of defenses against attacks on its satellites, including tiny new satellites that could one day be armed for wars in space, analysts say.
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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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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.