Cracks in a Long-Sought Missile Shield
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- Cracks in a Long-Sought Missile Shield. // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);01/31/2000, Vol. 135 Issue 5, p36A
Mentions the National Missile Defense System, which United States President Bill Clinton must decide whether to deploy by 2005. Testing of the antimissile system; Cause of the system's test failure in January 2000.
- Cracks in a Long-Sought Missile Shield. // Newsweek;1/31/2000, Vol. 135 Issue 5, p31
Mentions the National Missile Defense System, which United States President Bill Clinton must decide whether to deploy by 2005. Testing of the antimissile system; Cause of the system's test failure in January 2000.
- Missile defenses, relabeled. Moore, Mike // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 58 Issue 4, p22
Discusses issues on the U.S. plans to develop and deploy anti-ballistic missile defenses. Appeal of the anti-missile defense to defense contractors; Comments on the need for the U.S. to have total control of space; Views on the security aspects of building an anti-ballistic missile system.
- A SALESMAN ON THE ROAD. McGeary, Johanna; Branegan, Jay; Thompson, Mark; Dickerson, John F.; McAllister, J.F.O.; Quinn-Judge, Paul // Time International (South Pacific Edition);7/30/2001, Issue 30, p28
Discusses the reaction of world leaders to United States President George W. Bush's promotion of a missile defense plan. Technical, political and diplomatic obstacles that the proposal faces; Appeal of the basic theory of the plan; Comparison of Bush's foreign policy beliefs to those of former...
- Oops!...We Didn't Do It Again. Thompson, Mark // Time;7/17/2000, Vol. 156 Issue 3, p18
Mentions the United States Pentagon test of an exoatmospheric kill vehicle launched from Kwajalein Atoll in July 2000. Monitor of the test by Air Force Lieutenant General Ron Kadish from inside the Pentagon; Reaction to the failure of the $100 million test; Impact on the possibility of a...
- Another push for a shield of dreams. Newman, Richard J. // U.S. News & World Report;05/14/2001, Vol. 130 Issue 19, p20
Discusses the United States Pentagon's national missile defense program. Estimated costs of the system; Why ambitious plans and simulated missile wars may complicate, rather than simplify, efforts to build a missile shield that works; Debate over the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty.
- Miniature Air-Launched Decoy Confronts Cost, Jamming Options. Wall, Robert // Aviation Week & Space Technology;10/26/1998, Vol. 149 Issue 17, p50
Reports that flight testing is about to begin on the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) that could boost growing interest within the United States Defense Department. Electronic emitter payload carried by MALD that makes the vehicle look like a fighter or bomber to radar; Interest of the...
- MAY THE SHIELD BE WITH YOU. Farley, Christopher John; Thompson, Mark; Waller, Douglas; Meier, Andrew // Time;7/10/2000, Vol. 156 Issue 2, p34
Discusses the continued interest in missile defense in the United States which is being kept alive by election-year politicking, the defense industry and a group antimissile-system advocates. The scheduled test of the National Missile Defense (NMD) system on July 7, 2000; The major interest...
- Seeking a silver bullet. Galloway, Joseph L. // U.S. News & World Report;03/29/99, Vol. 126 Issue 12, p30
Discusses the quest for antimissile defense in the United States. How President Bill Clinton killed the Star Wars program when he first took office; Presidential campaign politics that have led to the rebirth of the antimissile defense debate; Views on the Antiballistic Missile treaty; Design...
