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missile-defence

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  • AMERICA's talks with Poland about placing a missile-defence shield on Polish soil had dragged on over many months.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • And the US 'recent sale of Patriot missile-defence systems to Taiwan is certainly a factor here.

    Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Foreign Affairs Roundup 2010

  • Still, in the parts that weren't blacked out, the newspaper says the documents contain information about — among other things — missile-defence systems, NATO's expansion to the Balkans, Afghan prisoners, arms control in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the presence of al-Qaeda in Pakistan.

    Stand Up for Accountability M@ 2009

  • On September 11 the new Czech envoy to NATO, Martin Povejsil, reiterated that Washington's plans to forge ahead with the missile system deployments in his nation and in Poland will proceed unhampered, stating "NATO still expects the U.S. system to be the core of its missile-defence structures that have been worked on."

    U.S. Expands Global Missile Shield Into Middle East, Balkans 2009

  • And they might be willing to trade off a disbanding of the foolish missile-defence effort in Eastern Europe for better relations in the North...

    Daimnation!: Pink Lloyd's fantasy world 2008

  • AMERICA's talks with Poland about placing a missile-defence shield on Polish soil had dragged on over many months.

    Russia, Georgia, and WWIII 2008

  • Above all, ignore the Cassandras who deride the state of our relations because of one missile-defence decision.

    dear dr rice 2005

  • The formal announcement Thursday that Canada will refuse any further participation in the controversial US missile-defence shield was met with an immediate warning that Canada had given up its sovereignty.

    Science and News 2005

  • I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were carefully rigged to show results.

    Boing Boing: February 27, 2005 - March 5, 2005 Archives 2005

  • I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were carefully rigged to show results.

    dear dr rice 2005

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