News Source: Russia Today
| 2 months ago
Czech Republic, Prague: Members and sympathizers of Humanist Movement protest against the planed US anti-missile radar station nearby the Prague Castle. (AFP Photo / Attila Kisbenedek) download embed Czechs relieved of radar base and democracy, too...
News Source: Press TV
| 2 months ago
After a Friday meeting with Czech Minister of Defense Martin Bartak, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that research and development on ground-based interceptors would continue as a fallback. The US decision to refocus missile defense plans is...
News Source: Dawn
| 2 months ago
It will have profound political implications for US foreign policy and international politics. The missile shield was announced in 2006 by the Bush administration to defend Europe and America from a supposed Iranian missile attack. The shield...
News Source: Financial Times
| 2 months ago
The altered plans announced by President Barack Obama this week would focus on Iranian short and medium range missiles rather than intercontinental missiles that would threaten the US and would in the first instance use ships and aircraft rather than...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 2 months ago
On Sept. 10, senior administration officials presented the case for substituting medium-range missile interceptors at a cabinet meeting at the White House. The presentation was the culmination of studies launched in 2006 by Defense Secretary Robert...
News Source: Press TV
| 2 months ago
Seeking to reassure the Czechs a day after President Barack Obama announced plans to scrap a missile defense shield based in Central Europe, Gates said he hoped Prague would play a role in the new system that will initially use sea-based interceptors.