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Poznan
Students Engage U.S. Officials in Missile Defense
Students at the Institute of Political Science and Journalism of
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan discussed missile defense with
U.S. officials on October 30, 2007. Peter Brookes, a Senior Fellow
at the Heritage Foundation and former Deputy Assistant Secretary
of the Department of Defense, and Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission
Kenneth Hillas spoke about the current missile defense proposal
for Europe that includes basing 10 long-range missile interceptors
in Poland. (more)
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Embassy Official Speaks to Bydgoszcz Students on Missile Defense
The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw's Deputy Press Attache, Chris Snipes, spoke to 150 political science students at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz about the U.S. proposal to place 10 missile interceptors in Poland, on Thursday, January 10. (more) |
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Embassy Co-Hosts Transatlantic Security Policy Conference
The U.S. Embassy, in partnership with the British Embassy, Gazeta Wyborcza, the Center for International Relations and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, hosted a one-day conference on November 15 on transatlantic security policy. A key topic of the conference was the current proposal on a European missile defense system. (more) |
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Embassy
Official Talks Missile Defense at National Defense University
Colonel Walter A. Munyer, the U.S. Embassy's
Air Attaché, visited the National Defense University in Rembertów
on Monday, November 12 to speak to an audience that included University
academics and military officers enrolled in the postgraduate strategic
course about missile defense. (more)
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Polish
Officials Visit U.S. Missile Defense Bases In Colorado and California
Six local government officials from
the Slupsk region spent the week of October 24 in the United States
visiting facilities related to the proposed deployment of a U.S.
missile defense system in Poland. (more)
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Recent
Statement on European Missile Defense
President
Bush spoke at the National Defense University on October 23, 2007.
An excerpt from his speech regarding missile defense follows. (more)
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Article
by Lt. General Henry Obering in Arms Control Today
When North Korea launched short- and long-range
missiles last summer, we had for the first time the means to defend
all 50 states and our allies in Japan and South Korea against a
possible ballistic missile attack. For the first time, leaders in
Washington had defense options available to them to protect American
cities other than preemption, retaliation, or capitulation.
(more)
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Missile Defense Negotiations Resume in Warsaw
U.S. and Polish negotiators are meeting October 2 and 3 in Warsaw in a fourth round of discussions regarding construction of a missile interceptor site in Poland as part of the Ballistic Missile Defense system. The U.S. delegation is headed by Assistant Secretary of State John Rood, while the Polish side is led by Witold Waszczykowski, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (more)
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U.S.
Conduct a Successful Missile Defense Test
On
28th of September, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducted a successful
test of its missile defense system. The target missile was launched
at 1:00pm PDT from Kodiak, Alaska. Following detection of the simulated
threat, a ground based interceptor missile was fired from Vandenberg
AFB, California. At 1:16pm PDT, the interceptor impacted the target
missile 120km into space, with collision speed exceeding 10,000
mph. (more)
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