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The Obama administration proposed on Monday a 6.7 percent cut in overall U.S. ballistic-missile defense spending compared with last year as part of deficit reduction efforts.

Iran's nuclear ambitions are anything but state secrets.A The media have widely reported on the successful test-fire of two long-range Iranian missiles in recent weeks.A Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta went on 60 Minutes to warn America that Iran is perhaps two or three years away from being able to launch nuclear warheads against the United ... (more)

An Israeli test on the Arrow missile defense system on Feb. 10 was conducted with information supplied by a U.S. radar system hosted at the eastern Anatolian province of Malatya's KA1 4recik military base, according to the DEBKAfile website, daily HA1 4rriyet reported.

Turkey went out of its way to ensure Israel had no access to data from the NATO-backed missile defense system to be built on its territory, the Turkish According the report, "Turkey went to great lengths in protracted negotiations with the US to secure guarantees that the data to be collected by the system will not be shared with ally-turned-foe ... (more)

WASHINGTON, March 16-18, 2001 -- Editor's Note : At the turn of the century, a batch of recently declassified analyses by the Central Intelligence Agency offered new insight into U.S. intelligence during the Cold War.

The United States has agreed to help Israel develop a new defense system known as David's Sling to protect the Jewish state against large-scale missile attack.

The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers Actions taken by the Obama Administration signal an important policy shift in the nation's education policy, with the Department placing the nation on the road to federal direction over elementary and secondary school ... (more)

The situation in the Gulf seems to be heating up for a face-off and nations are getting into readiness if the telltale signs are read.

Israel says it has successfully tested an upgraded radar for the Arrow missile defense system, developed with the United States and designed to intercept projectiles that might be fired at the Jewish state from Iran.

Yet again, the Russians are working to strengthen their position prior to NATO's Chicago summit coming up in May.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said it was Ankara that demanded a NATO missile defense shield be deployed in Turkey, Today's Zaman reported.

New Delhi, Feb 10 : The Defence Research and Development Organisation on Friday conducted a successful test launch of the interceptor missile.

In the face of Iran's continued pursuit of a nuclear weapon, Israel tested the Arrow missile defense system on Friday in what officials said was a successful demonstration of the country's ability to defend itself in a future war.

India has test-fired a domestically developed interceptor missile capable of destroying ballistic missiles, the Hindustan Times reported on Friday.

India today successfully test-fired indigenously developed interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming hostile ballistic missile, from a test range off Odisha coast.

In reality, Obama's foreign policy vis-a-vis Russia has failed not due to its cowering weakness and accommodation, but due to its significant overlap with the previous administration's bullheaded and illogical insistence on pursuing ballistic missile defense in Eastern Europe.

This month a new radar of the Voronezh class will be put on alert duty near Russia's second largest city of St.

The current furore over Egypt's highly public effort to put a group of NGO staff members working at the International Republican Institute in Cairo on trial because they have been working on democracy issues and electoral training may actually belong at the feet of Ronald Reagan.

WASHINGTON, March 16-18, 2001 -- Editor's Note : At the turn of the century, a batch of recently declassified analyses by the Central Intelligence Agency offered new insight into U.S. intelligence during the Cold War.

Fiscal notes rarely are available to Illinois lawmakers to help guide their decision-making. Unfortunately, in a year when lawmakers pledged fiscal restraint and a new era of financial responsibility, only 10 out of the 650 laws passed and signed in 2011 had fiscal notes.