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...band's shorter wavelengths and advanced signal-processing capabilities give it the power to "draw" a clear image of the incoming warheads and surrounding decoys from up to 1,000 miles away. (Ultimately, the system's $500 million X-band radar will be based on storm-tossed Shemya Island, Alaska...
Clinton may play a waiting game on missile defense. He might choose to start clearing ground for one of the first phases of NMD, a radar station on Shemya, on the westernmost tip of Alaska. But he might hold off actual construction, technically avoiding a breach of the ABM treaty while keeping the U.S. on a timetable to build NMD before any "states of concern" are projected to have long-range missiles. Senate majority leader Trent Lott has indicated that he wouldn't mind seeing the NMD decision put off until the next Administration. For now, it seems, the question...
...legal brains have eschewed conventional wisdom, which holds any effort to start work on deploying a new missile defense system as a violation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. Instead, they reportedly argue that the U.S. can begin clearing the system's proposed site on the Alaskan island of Shemya, and even pour its concrete foundations, without technically violating the agreement. But there is no court that umpires adherence to arms-control treaties, and Clinton's legal team is extremely unlikely to convince Russia's President Vladimir Putin that Washington isn't fouling...
...based on a congressional commission's assessment that North Korea could be in a position to target the U.S. with a long-range missile by then. To meet the deadline, however, the U.S. has to start work next spring on an advanced radar site on the Alaskan island of Shemya, where fearsome temperatures make construction work possible only during the summer months. But as soon as first concrete is poured on the site, Washington will be in violation of the 1972 ABM treaty severely limiting the extent of missile defense deployed by Washington and Moscow. Clinton wants the Russians...
...ground bases to the west. With the closing of the two sites in Iran, the bases in Turkey are the nearest to the Soviet Union. The impact areas in the Pacific and on the U.S.S.R.'s Kamchatka Peninsula are watched by the massive radio and radar installation on Shemya Island in the Aleutians. What made the Iranian posts especially valuable was their proximity to the launch site, thus assuring very accurate reception of telemetry, the performance data being beamed by the test missile. The huge eavesdropping antennas of the Kabkan base in Iran were almost on the Soviet border...