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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: intercontinental ballistic missile

intercontinental ballistic missile stories: 4 news summaries

US Fortifies Hawaii Against
N. Korea Threat

Gates moves anti-missile system to islands ... just in case

Jun 18, 09 3:28 PM CDT
(AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he is positioning defenses near Hawaii just in case North Korea fires a missile across the Pacific toward the island state. Gates says he has sent the military's ground-based mobile missile system to Hawaii and positioned a radar system nearby. Together the systems theoretically could... More »

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North Korea • Robert Gates • United States • missile defense system • Hawaii • Kim Jong Il • defense • intercontinental ballistic missile

 N. Korea Readies 
 Missile for Launch 

UN sanctions will derail disarmament talks: Pyongyang

Mar 25, 09 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - As the date of a promised “satellite launch” nears, North Korea has placed a long-range ballistic missile on the launch pad used for earlier test firings, Reuters reports. South Korea, Japan, and the US plan to seek UN sanctions if the nuclear power goes forward with what analysts believe... More »

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North Korea • United Nations • South Korea • Japan • United States • satellite • Kim Jong Il • UN sanctions • nuclear missiles • intercontinental ballistic missile • nuclear test

US Claims Success in Latest Missile Defense Test

System shoots down projectile over Pacific

Dec 5, 08 4:12 PM CST
(Newser) - The Pentagon says the latest test of its missile-defense system, performed today, was a success, Reuters reports. An interceptor missile dispatched from an Air Force base in California shot down a test projectile—similar to those Iran and North Korea claim to possess—fired from Alaska over the Pacific this... More »

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Iran • North Korea • missile defense system • intercontinental ballistic missile

Nuke Fluke: US Sent Missile Parts to Taiwan

Defense Dept. didn't realize error through nearly 2 years of Taiwanese queries

Mar 25, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US accidentally shipped components used in nuclear missiles to Taiwan in 2006, CNN reports. Instead of helicopter batteries, the Defense Department sent fuses designed to allow 1960s ballistic missiles to detonate; no actual nuclear material was involved. Taiwan quickly alerted the US to the error, but it wasn’t... More »

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Pentagon • Taiwan • missile • Department of Defense • accident • intercontinental ballistic missile

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