Word: interceptor
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...Sept. 11 showed, ballistic missiles from rogue nations are far from our greatest national security threat. No interceptor missile could have protected the World Trade Center from American Airlines Flight 11, nor could a missile defense system fight the anthrax attacks that have plagued the country in the past weeks. Given the events of the past weeks, it seems much more likely that terrorists or rogue states would smuggle a weapon into America than launch it at Washington atop a missile...
...Bush administration had hoped to conduct a test in February involving a combination of several radar and defense programs. Again, however, ABM makes such testing illegal. We also cannot test a space-based interceptor against target ballistic missiles. Indeed, the treaty takes quite an extreme stance on this issue. Such space-based testing is banned even if the missile being “intercepted” was indisputably a theater-range missile...
...teaches antibodies the secret to fighting the real virus. Aldar Bourinbaiar, an American scientist who is connected to Salang's foundation, claims that within 15 days many patients start putting on weight and their sores begin to heal; over six months the viral load drops and the CD-8 interceptor cells, which protect the body's immune system, start rallying. "We know the drug replaces infected cells with healthy ones, but we'll probably spend the next 10 years figuring out why it works," Bourinbaiar says...
...complications. A missile-killing warship would have to be close to the enemy-rocket launch, sitting in international waters just off the coast of North Korea, for example. But if the rocket blasted off too far inland--from deep inside China, Iran, Iraq or Russia, for example--the Navy interceptor would be unable to catch it. That shortcoming pleases Moscow and Beijing, which would be beyond the ship-based system's reach...
...administration officials heading for Europe, Russia and China to discuss Washington's plan to build a comprehensive missile shield (NMD)to protect itself and its allies - comprehensive in intent, although still for the most part undefined, because the science has not yet produced an even minimally reliable interceptor system. And from initial reactions to the President's speech, NMD will be a tough sell abroad...