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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Missile Defense
Missile Defense
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USS Delaware makes its way down the Thames River and past the City of New London after departing Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, on November 28, 2022. (John Narewski via DVIDS)
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People watch a television broadcast showing a file image of a North Korean rocket launch at the Seoul Railway Station on May 31, 2023, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping shake hands after delivering a joint statement in Moscow, on March 21, 2023. (Mikhail Tereshchenko/AFP via Getty Images)
Commentary
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A display at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum shows how many nuclear weapons remain in the world on August 12, 2012. (Tim Wright via Flickr)
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The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Alaska returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay following routine operations on January 7, 2015. (US Navy photo by Rex Nelson)
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming on April 4, 2012. (R.J. Oriez via Getty Images)
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Missiles fly across the range into the designated target during demonstration of the combined live fire exercise on August 17, 2015, at Seungjin Range, South Korea. (Jaewoo Oh via DVIDS)
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A Standard Missile-3 is launched from Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile cruiser in Kauai, Hawaii, on November 6, 2007. (US Navy via DVIDS)
Experts
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
