Word: interceptor
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...Treaty, the Clinton administration is now trying a new tactic to get Russian approval to revise one of the baseline arms control documents, the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. The carrot, according to the New York Times: If the Russians agree not to squawk over plans to create radar-and-interceptor missile defenses in Alaska and North Dakota (a violation of the treaty), the U.S. will help Russia upgrade its own missile-tracking radar defenses. Although Russia, knowing it can't afford to enter an arms race it can't win, has so far been unmoved since the U.S. announced...
...more diplomatic foul weather - or even, down the road, more nuclear threats - than it?s designed to shelter against. The Russians have shown absolutely no inclination to modify the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to permit such a weapon, despite a U.S. compromise position of just one ground-based interceptor site based in Alaska (the second one is slated for North Dakota). China is equally perturbed at the idea, since U.S. allies in the Pacific, like Japan, are certain to clamor for the technology. But there's considerable pressure to disregard the Cold War-imposed treaties, particularly in the Republican...
...ground-based missiles that would stand guard over all 50 states, poised to destroy a handful of incoming missiles. In time-tested Star Wars practice, the President is expected to decide in June 2000 whether to deploy the system, even though tests on key components--such as the missile interceptor and the rocket it will ride on--won't be completed until three years after that...
...Force to answer a question about whether the Patriot-like missiles that will be coming at us from Eglin will be carrying warheads capable of blowing us up if they should miss the target missiles. To which I eventually received, in writing, the not entirely soothing reply, "The interceptor [Patriot-like] missiles are 'hit-to-kill' design or are a proximity-fused design which carries conventional explosives in shaped configuration. Hit-to-kill interceptors use kinetic energy and do not generally have explosives. 'Proximity-fused design' means that the missile is designed so that when an object such as another...
...Pacific Daylight Time, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese put in an urgent call to Ronald Reagan...The mystery of a missing South Korean jetliner...had been solved: 17 hours earlier Korean Airlines Flight 007 had been cold-bloodedly blasted out of the skies by a missile-firing Soviet interceptor, with an all but certain loss of 269 lives." --Sept...