Entries Tagged as 'Missile Defense'

Russia long-range missile test a success

Reuters – USA: Thu Aug 28, 2008
By Chris Baldwin MOSCOW (Reuters)

– Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defence systems from its Plesetsk launch site, a Russian military spokesman said on Thursday…

www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSLS60130720080828

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Missile Defense: Understanding the Issues

Antiwar.com – Redwood City,CA,USA
by Randal Mark

‘George Monbiot has a piece in the Guardian this week (“The
US missile defense system is the magic pudding that will never run out”)…’

antiwar.com 23 Aug.

The US missile defence system is the magic pudding that will never run out.

Poland is just the latest fall guy for an American foreign policy dictated by military industrial lobbyists in Washington.

George Monbiot, The Guardian, Tuesday August 19 2008
“This proves that the missile defence system is necessary after all: it will stop the missiles Russia will now aim at Poland, the Czech Republic and the UK in response to, er, their involvement in the missile defence system…”
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/19/usforeignpolicy.russia/print