Missile Defense Testing, GMD Studies Sought In Senate Bill

The defense policy bill the Senate is expected to debate this month calls for the Pentagon to craft detailed plans for two much-debated aspects of the Ballistic Missile Defense System: its testing regimen and its ground-based missile interceptor sites. The fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill that...

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