If the intelligence is sound, then the practical side of seizing these weapons stockpiles, and destroying the long range missiles, might not be insurmountable.
An internal report from the Iraqi National Congress, the chief Iraqi opposition group, says that during a televised procession at Baghdad's military parade ground last year, new missiles were displayed, including ones that appeared to violate the U.N. ban on long-range missiles that is meant to prevent Iraq from threatening Europe.
Western nations have expressed concern that Iran's space programme is being used to develop long-range missiles.
Also, and especially in light of the proliferation of long-range missiles, theater and national missile defenses are key.
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An Iranian diplomat in New York denied North Korea has helped Tehran develop long-range missiles, declining to comment further.
In 2006, IAF strikes in the first 24 hours of the war knocked out all of Hezbollah's long-range missiles.
Article V barred the development of the most efficient approaches to defending against long-range missiles (sea-, air- and space-based systems).
Their remarks have concentrated on what is already largely recognized - that Israel's home front will be targeted by long-range missiles.
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It may be hoping that its new long-range missiles would make South Korea's allies, including America, think twice before joining the fray.
The United States argued Hussein's regime had been harboring forbidden stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, long-range missiles and a nuclear weapons program.
Indeed, its concern about future threats from unpredictably violent countries and people who are attempting to acquire long-range missiles is naturally going to intensify.
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After Saddam Hussein's government collapsed the following month, U.S. inspectors found some evidence that Iraq had conducted prohibited research into long-range missiles and biological weapons.
They've said all along the threat is really Iran and Iranian potential long-range missiles, and that's why they wanted to expand the American missile defense system to Europe.
In particular, Gershwin noted the possibility of short-cuts that might permit developing countries to acquire long-range missiles far more quickly than if they were obliged to develop them indigenously.
New legislation to be introduced by the end of the month will make it impossible for British arms brokers to sell long-range missiles and instruments of torture to anyone.
The United States and Britain accused Iraq of failing to comply with U.N. resolutions demanding it give up chemical and biological weapons, long-range missiles and any nuclear weapons program.
The Cuban leader, cut out of the main negotiations between the superpowers over the fate of the long range Soviet missiles stationed in Cuba, began to cease cooperation with Moscow.
Security analysts have noted a marked shift in India's acquisitions of military hardware, from conventional land-based systems to means of power projection such as airborne refuelling systems and long-range missiles.
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The US, South Korea and Japan - who believe North Korea is working to develop long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads - want action such as the strengthening of sanctions.
Policymakers knew America needed its own force of long-range missiles to deter a Russian attack, but deterrence was a new idea so they also wanted to have the protection provided by real defenses.
Honeywell began the MRAM effort in 1984 at the urging of the Department of Defense, which needed memory for satellites and long-range missiles that could withstand radiation in space without the addition of heavy shielding.
Reinforcing existing defences against possible long-range Iranian missiles is seen as a problem for the future, given that America now says the Iranians are working more on short- and medium-range missiles than on long-range ones.
The United States and its allies invaded Iraq in March 2003, accusing Saddam Hussein's regime of concealing stocks of chemical and biological weapons, long-range missiles and efforts to develop a nuclear bomb from U.N. weapons inspectors.
The Bush-era proposal called for the United States to set up a radar site in the Czech Republic and 10 missile interceptors in Poland to counter the threat of Iran launching long-range missiles at America's allies in Europe.
Bush administration officials -- Powell among them -- argued that Iraq had harbored stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, a hidden nuclear weapons program and long-range missiles in violation of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
The performance of critical subsystems and other lessons learned during its tests -- even those that prove to be less than fully successful -- contribute significantly to the maturing of urgently systems that can defend against short-, medium- and long-range missiles.
If, against all odds, the latest intelligence estimates are right that it will take Iran a bit longer to get such long-range missiles, it would mean that we just might be able to have defenses against them in place before they are needed.
More than two dozen nations either already possess long-range ballistic missiles or will soon have them.
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