Cuts pushed for planned missile program
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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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OTTAWA (CP) - Ballistic missile defence, a mere political hiccup south of the border even in an American presidential year, is showing surprising strength as a topic of public debate in Canada.
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Climate change and Russian concerns over an American missile defense plan are expected to dominate todayâs meeting of wealthy democracies.
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FORT GREELY, Alaska, Aug. 27 -- After his first look inside the nerve center of the U.S. missile defense system, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Sunday sounded a note of caution about expectations that interceptors poised in 10 underground silos here would work in the event of a missile...
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Cost overruns won't endanger Northrop Grumman's latest surveillance aircraft program, but federal budget cuts will likely hamper future defense contracts.
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President Bush will propose a nearly 5 percent increase for next year's defense spending while calling for cuts in payments to farmers and work on a nuclear waste storage site in Nevada, according to documents and federal officials.
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EDGESVILLE, W.Va., Aug. 17 - Saying he was &quot;living in the future,&quot; President Bush promoted his plans for a missile defense system on Tuesday and said that its opponents were putting the nation&#39;s security at risk, as he courted ...
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The United States, Russia and other  nuclear states must resume efforts to cut their stockpiles or  risk undermining support for curbing Iran and North Korea&#39;s  atomic ambitions, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett  said on Monday.
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The United States has proposed delaying the activation of parts of its missile defense shield if Russia cooperates on the project, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
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China's use of a ground-based  missile to destroy a satellite last month should spur debate  about putting U.S. interceptor missiles in space, the head of  the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said Monday.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT.N and  Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC.N would bear the brunt of proposed  cuts in U.S. weapons purchases totaling $30 billion over the  next six years, according to the summary from a Pentagon budget  document made available to Reuters Monday.
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President Bush's budget, sent to Congress on Monday, proposes cuts in domestic spending in an effort to tackle the ballooning budget deficit.
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I ran&#39;s development of ballistic missiles has sparked concerns about the missiles&#39; possible application to nuclear technology.
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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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Although only a test, the failure of the US National Missile defense Program yesterday was seen as a major setback for the program.
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The move is part of a broader effort by the White House to identify and slow key elements of Iran's weapons programs.
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The White House plans to shift $3.2 billion in defense spending -- partly from new weapons like the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- to support troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, a trade publication reported on Monday.