<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Missile Defense</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><description>Missile Defense</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Commander Seeks Alternate Uses for ICBMs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6219-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6219-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The commander of the Air Force Space Command denied yesterday that his 500 nuclear-armed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles are mere "Cold War icons" and said he is preparing alternative uses for the ICBMs, including arming them with conventional warheads to attack surface or deeply buried targets.]]></description><author> Walter Pincus</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense Funds Boost Orbital's Fortunes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19085-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19085-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's a tough line of work, making rockets and satellites for customers as demanding as the U.S. Department of Defense. When a launch is successful, there are smiles all around. When it's not, there's no hiding the disappointment.]]></description><author> Bill Brubaker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Director Moves to End Test Glitches]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21817-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21817-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The general in charge of the Pentagon's faltering effort to develop a system for defending the United States against ballistic missile attack said Wednesday that he has ordered a thorough review of all ground equipment used in testing and appointed a senior Navy officer to oversee future test preparations.]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Rejects Missile Shield Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51588-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51588-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that Canada would not participate in a U.S. missile defense system, dealing a blunt rebuff to President Bush, who had personally lobbied for a partnership.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumsfeld States Case For Burrowing Weapon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30615-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30615-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld Wednesday defended plans to resume studying the feasibility of an earth-penetrating nuclear warhead, saying many countries are burying targets underground and "we have no capability, conventional or nuclear" to go after them.]]></description><author> Walter Pincus</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Missile Defense  Again Fails Key Test]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23242-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23242-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration's new missile defense system on Monday automatically shut down a few seconds before an interceptor missile was to launch toward a mock enemy warhead.]]></description><author> Ann Scott Tyson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report Critical of Airline Protection System]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36683-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36683-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Existing technology to resist a shoulder-fired-missile attack on a commercial aircraft is too expensive and unreliable, according to a Rand Corp. study released Tuesday.]]></description><author> Renae Merle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Minor' Software Glitch Is Cited in Missile Failure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4973-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4973-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The test failure last month of the Bush administration's new missile defense system resulted from a "very minor" computer software glitch that can be easily corrected and will have no effect on the system's ability to defend the United States against attack, the general in charge of the Pentagon program said Wednesday.]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Missile Defense System Test Fails]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A700-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A700-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Latest setback for the Bush administration's effort to build a system for defending the country against ballistic missile attack fuels doubts about the system.]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report: U.S.  Missiles Downed Navy Jet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56199-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56199-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Operators mistakenly took a Navy pilot's F/A-18 Hornet for an incoming Iraqi missile during the spring 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Central Command said Friday.]]></description><author> Thomas E. Ricks</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin: Russia to Deploy Missiles 'Unlikely to Exist' Elsewhere]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56417-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56417-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Vladimir Putin told a conference of top military officials Wednesday that Russia was planning to deploy a nuclear missile of a kind that other nuclear powers were unlikely to develop.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Likely to Face Missile Defense Issue Head-On]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48191-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48191-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TORONTO -- The reelection of President Bush is pushing the Canadian government toward a decision it had hoped to avoid: whether to join a new U.S. system designed to shoot down any missile headed for North America.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[N. Korea Used to Justify System]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58086-2004Sep28.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58086-2004Sep28.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In justifying the accelerated deployment of a nationwide anti-missile system, the Bush administration has cited a growing missile threat, particularly from North Korea.]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interceptor System Set, But Doubts Remain]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58080-2004Sep28.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58080-2004Sep28.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[What the Bush administration had hoped would be a triumphant achievement is clouded by doubts, even within the Pentagon, about whether a missile defense system that is on its way to costing more than $100 billion will work.]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test of Missile Defense System Delayed Again]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18975-2004Sep13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18975-2004Sep13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Pentagon's last hope of flight-testing critical new elements of an antimissile system, before activating the system this autumn, appeared to vanish with the disclosure that the next flight test has been postponed.]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Firms Win Contracts for Missile Work]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34087-2004Aug25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34087-2004Aug25.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[BAE Systems PLC  and Northrop Grumman Corp. won $45 million contracts yesterday to develop prototypes of anti-missile technology that could protect commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.]]></description><author> Renae Merle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumsfeld Waits for 'Go' on Missile Defense]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13216-2004Aug18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13216-2004Aug18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday that he is still working out the rules dictating when and under whose authority to fire a new system to protect the United States from missile attack, and is awaiting a final assessment about the system's readiness to begin operations.]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Assails Kerry on Missile Defense]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9661-2004Aug17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9661-2004Aug17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush reaffirmed his administration's commitment to building an antimissile system, accusing opponents of the program of "living in the past."]]></description><author> Mary Fitzgerald  and Vanessa Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using Defense Know-How for Health Care]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22229-2004Jul1.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22229-2004Jul1.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A group of military doctors and engineers have joined forces in an experimental effort to find out if technology developed by the Pentagon could also be used to hunt for potentially cancerous tumors in womens' breasts.]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Passes $447 Billion Defense Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1181-2004Jun23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1181-2004Jun23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate Wednesday night approved President Bush's military spending blueprint for  next year after a five-week struggle during which Republicans turned back Democrats'  attempts to reshape it.]]></description><author> Helen Dewar</author></item></channel></rss>