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  • Missile Defense Budget Boosts Requested
    Arms Control Today
    March 1, 2008

    Heading into its final year in office, the Bush administration is asking Congress to give a spending boost to anti-missile systems, particularly a controversial project to extend systems to Europe. Although missile defenses have been a constant funding favorite of the administration, a recent Pentagon report found capabilities remain limited. (Continue)
  • More States Step Up Anti-Missile Work
    Arms Control Today
    January 28, 2008

    As the United States struggles to establish a toehold for long-range ballistic missile interceptors in Europe, countries in other regions are showing greater interest in shorter-range anti-missile systems. Japan and India recently reported successful tests of separate systems, and two Persian Gulf states are on the verge of spending billions of dollars on U.S. systems. (Continue)
  • Europe Anti-Missile Plan Faces Hard Sell
    Arms Control Today
    January 25, 2008
  • Hill Reviews Defense Policies; Nixes Warhead
    Arms Control Today
    January 25, 2008

    In a trio of bills passed recently, the Democratic-controlled Congress ordered several reviews of key Bush administration defense and nuclear policies, setting the stage for possible future course changes. Lawmakers also dealt a more immediate reversal to administration plans by nearly eliminating all funding for a new nuclear warhead. (Continue)
  • Missile Nonproliferation and Missile Defense: Fitting Them Together
    Arms Control Today
    November 1, 2007

    Missile nonproliferation and missile defense are directed against the same threats. Each seeks to prevent damage from proliferators’ missiles, one by acting before launch and the other after launch.[1] For good reason, the United States has been pursuing both approaches. Nonetheless, in practice there are gaps and potential conflicts between nonproliferation and defense strategies. (Continue)
  • In Memoriam: Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky
    Arms Control Today
    November 1, 2007
  • U.S., Russia Swap Arms Ideas
    Arms Control Today
    November 1, 2007
  • Pentagon Repeats Missile Defense Test Success
    Arms Control Today
    November 1, 2007
  • Of Missiles and Missile Defenses
    Arms Control Today
    October 1, 2007

    Two decades ago, President Ronald Reagan proposed a simple yet bold idea to reduce the risks of nuclear-armed ballistic missile attacks and “mutual assured destruction.” At the October 1986 Reykjavik summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan suggested that both countries eliminate all offensive ballistic missiles within 10 years while researching and developing strategic missile defenses.

    Although Gorbachev rejected Reagan’s proposal, the exchange set the stage for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which scrapped all of their ground-launched missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers and eased Cold War hostilities. (Continue)
  • European Missile Defense: The View From The Pentagon
    Arms Control Today
    October 1, 2007