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START Follow-On Treaty Could Interfere with Conventional Strike Systems

The Obama Administration is currently rushing to establish a treaty to succeed the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Early indications are that this neaw agreement will limit U.S. options to field conventionally armed missiles -- ...

From BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Congress,  Dmitry Medvedev

A Year of Living Dangerously: Dismantling Missile Defense

It has been one year since the 2008 national election. During this period, the cause of missile defense has suffered serious setbacks. The overall budget for missile defense for this fiscal year will be $1.6 billion less than the amount allocated in ...

From BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

A Flawed Approach to Arms Control: START Negotiations Will Not Serve U.S. Interests

When President Obama announced on September 17 that he had decided to cancel a plan for putting missile defense systems in the Czech Republic and Poland, he ignored repeated warnings from Members of Congress not to permit negotiations with Russia over ...

From BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  13 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Dmitry Medvedev,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Jon Kyl

Two Plus Two Equals Five: The Obama Administration's Missile Defense Plans Do Not Add Up

Last week, President Obama announced that the U.S. would end the "third site" missile defense program to field interceptors in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic. Obama declared he will instead pursue a new "phased, adaptive approach" to provide ...

From BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  NATO,  International Atomic Energy Agency

White House Fact Sheet on Missile Defense Raises More Questions Than It Answers

On September 17, President Obama announced that the United States would not honor its commitment to field missile defense interceptors in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic.[1] At the same time, he announced that the U.S. would pursue a new “phased, ...

From BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  18 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  White House,  NATO

Obama Administration's New Missile Defense Plan Is a Losing Proposition

Today, President Obama reneged on a long-standing agreement with America's allies and formally abandoned the "third site" missile defense plan. The U.S. will no longer be deploying 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic, a ...

From BAKER SPRING AND MACKENZIE M. EAGLEN, The Heritage Foundation,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  United Nations,  The Pentagon,  Jon Kyl

Obama Missile Defense Proposal: Numbers Matter

The Obama Administration's fiscal year 2010 proposal for missile defense scales back the number of ground-based midcourse defense (GMD) interceptors to be fielded in Alaska and California from the planned 44 to 30.[1] The President's proposal also puts ...

From BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Robert Gates,  George W. Bush,  Mark Begich

Sustain the Other European Missile Defense Program

In recent months, much of Congress's attention has been focused on the missile defense program that would place 10 ground-based midcourse defense interceptors in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic. This particular focus is understandable; after all, ...

From BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama

Arms Control with Russia: Senators Should Provide Their Advice to the Obama Administration

[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur... During his recent trip to Moscow, President Obama entered into a joint statement with Russian ...

From BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  7 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. House of Representatives

What Americans Need to Know About Missile Defense: We're Not There Yet

In 33 minutes or less, life as we know it in America could end. That's how long it would take for an enemy ballistic missile launched from the other side of the world to hit the United States. If it carried and detonated a nuclear weapon high over the ...

From KIM R. HOLMES, PH.D., JAMES JAY CARAFANO, PH.D., PETER BROOKES, AND BAKER SPRING, The Heritage Foundation,  30 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  Boeing,  NATO

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