Defense planners on both sides have felt comfortable with lower levels of offensive missiles knowing that they would not have to penetrate a defensive missile shield.
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The treaty has been amended since then, but essentially it restricts the ability of either side to deploy more than a limited number of defensive missiles.
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None of the missiles fired at USS Mason hit their targets; U . S . authorities claimed that defensive countermeasures were used, including firing defensive missiles.
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The Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged adjusting and amending, not scrapping, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which bans national defensive missile systems.
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That technology includes the composite materials used for the outer surface of the plane that absorb radar instead of reflecting it back to defensive missile sites.
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It came as part of a broader agreement that also included a new willingness on Russia's part to discuss changes in the treaty restricting defensive missile systems.
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They system would then direct defensive missiles to blast out of the sky any missiles headed toward the United States, its troops stationed overseas or its allies.
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President Bush's broad foreign policy agenda, and not just the administration's hope of deploying a defensive missile system, is at risk of being frustrated in a Democratic-controlled Senate.
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Forty-foot rockets from Cudjoe would be intercepted over the Gulf of Mexico by the latest US defensive missiles fired from Eglin Air Force base on the Florida Panhandle.
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Elizabeth Dole promises to rebuild the military, develop a defensive missile system and, when necessary, have America act alone when force must be used in the world's trouble spots.
