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America’s missile defense programs are at a critical moment in history. While the COVID-19 pandemic has seized the global conversation, our country’s adversaries and rogue actors across the earth are taking advantage of the worldwide chaos by quietly bolstering their offensive capabilities. America must respond by ensuring we prioritize funding to adequately prepare our missile defenses. In spite of the fact that coronavirus cases in Iran continue to rise – just topping 100,000 according to one estimate – hostile actions by the Iranian military have not let up. In late April Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched the country’s first military satellite...

The Ballistic Missile Defense Review released today aligns U.S. missile defense posture with near-term regional missile threats, and sustains the ability to defend the homeland against limited long-range missile attack, said Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy. Flournoy today described six major priorities that will shape U.S. missile defense at a Pentagon news conference. The first goes to the heart of defense and that is to defend the United States from a limited ballistic missile attack. The second is to defend against growing regional threats. A third priority is “to test new systems under realistic conditions before they’re deployed...

MOSCOW — Russia's military on Tuesday successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads -- a weapon intended to replace aging Soviet-era missiles.