Christophe Duverne, a spokesman for NXP, told Reuters that it would take months or years for some users of the chip to adapt their systems to defend against the attack.

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The comprehensive capability to defend against ballistic missile attack inherent in a space-based SDI is utterly incompatible with the concept of strategic vulnerability to such attack enshrined in that 1972 accord.

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The US's EMP commission's report explained that to defend against such an attack, it is necessary to build redundant electrical systems and have difficult-to-build replacement parts like turbines on hand to replace ones destroyed by such an attack.

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In a previous position that Bishop held from May 2010 to April 2012, Bishop had access to "top secret" information on the command's efforts to defend against a ballistic missile attack from North Korea, Crutchfield said.

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In the meantime, it would be irresponsible to invite EMP-induced disaster by remaining unable either to defend against or to deter such an attack and its effects.

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Like every other defense program -- and, for that matter, any other government activity -- responsible officials and their contractors must be held to the highest standards of integrity and technical performance when it comes to what is, arguably, one of the Nation's most important initiatives: the effort to defend the American people against ballistic missile attack.

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The adversary had a homeland to protect, assets to defend, and with those came a deterrent against attack.

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The United States intends to develop and deploy a missile defense designed to defend our people and forces against a limited ballistic missile attack, and is prepared to assist friends and allies threatened by missile attack to deploy such defenses.

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That is particularly true in one area: His commitment to defend the American people, their forces, and allies overseas against ballistic-missile attack.

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We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we defend and later investigate.

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The U.S. Cyber Command also has more powerful tools to fight and defend against cyber attacks than does the DHS, a potential problem when time is of the essence during an attack.

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