In two thousand six, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advised President George W.Bush to base a missile defense system in Europe.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

American Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Iranian missile will be able to travel up to two thousand five hundred kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

They will serve on two guided-missile and two ballistic-missile subs based in the states of Washington and Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

This year, the historic area had many visitors, including former American service members who remember the missile crisis.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Western nations are concerned that Iran could use the missile technology to launch a nuclear weapon, which Iran is suspected of building.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD (translator): "The Sejil-2 missile, which has very advanced technology, was launched from Semnan and it landed precisely on the target."

VOA: special.2009.05.23

"Those who say we are scrapping missile defense in Europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting the reality of what we are doing."

VOA: special.2009.09.19

He served as a delegate to the United Nations during the Cuban missile crisis in nineteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

President Obama still has to decide the future of a Bush administration plan to put a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

But the decision to drop the Bush missile-defense plan brought a mixed reaction in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

Park officials are working to recover a missile base used in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The base was closed and all missile equipment was removed in the nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

China tested an anti-satellite missile by destroying one of its weather satellites.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

The White Sands Missile Range completely surrounds the park.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

This week, Iran test-fired a new missile.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

"This new ballistic missile defense program will best address the threat posed by Iran's ongoing ballistic missile defense program."

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Russia has offered some cooperation on missile defense in the past, but has resisted the kind of system U.S.officials have proposed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

That was good news for the large and growing segment of the U.S.defense establishment and defense industry devoted to missile defense.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized North Korea Saturday for recklessly pursuing nuclear and missile capabilities while many of its people starved.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Plans for a missile defense system in parts of the former Soviet bloc have been an irritant between Washington and Moscow.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

While denying any intention to build atomic weapons, Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear program and upgrading its missile technology.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11