| Saturday July 14
11:22 PM ET
U.S. Ballistic Missile-Shield Test a Success
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department shot down a mock warhead
over the Pacific Ocean late on Saturday in a successful test of a controversial
anti-ballistic
missile defense.
Two out of the three previous tests had failed.
The $100 million test involved a Minuteman 2 intercontinental ballistic
missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California and an interceptor
fired from Kwajalein
Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 4,800 miles away.
The Defense Department said the target was launched from Vandenberg
Air Force Base in California at 10:40 p.m. EDT. Twenty-one minutes and
34 seconds later, a
ground-based interceptor lifted off from Kwajalein
Atoll, it said.
The target was destroyed 140 miles above the central Pacific, outside
the earth's atmosphere, by the 120-pound ``kill vehicle.''
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COMMENT:
The ABM Treaty of 1972 was between the USA and the Soviet Union.
Where on the map is the Soviet Union? --Please find it...
How can we be bound by a treaty with a nonexistent country?
We cannot!
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Critics claim that if the US goes ahead with NMD it "...could
spark a new arms race."
With what will the Russians finance this arms race?
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