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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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A Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor is launched from the USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific, May 16, 2013. (U.S. Missile Defense Agency)
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A man watches a news report on North Korea's planned rocket launch at a railway station in Seoul on February 3, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
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The first successfully conducted intercept flight test of a land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapon system and Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile, Kauai, Hawaii. (MDA)
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Students led by the League of Filipino Students (LFS) and Kabataan Partylist outside the Chinese Consulate to the Philippines in Makati City, February 19, 2016. (Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Commentary
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A Standard Missile-6 demonstrating its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in their final seconds of flight during live fire tests July 28-Aug. 1, 2015, aboard the USS John Paul Jones. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency
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A stack of scrapped missiles displayed at a war museum on May 2, 2005 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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A soldier fires a portable air defense rocket during the International military games 'Masters of Antiaircraft Battle - 2015' outside the Russian southern town of Yeisk on August 6, 2015. (SERGEI VENYAVSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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
