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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Missile Defense
Missile Defense
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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)
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(Screenshot via Real America's Voice)
In the Media
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Self-propelled howitzers during the Victory Day military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2022. (Bai Xueqi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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An operational test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on September 26, 2013. (Andy Wulfestieg via Flickr)
Commentary
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(Screenshot via VOA Korea)
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North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles during a Victory Day parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 26, 2013. (Wikimedia Commons)
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(Screenshot via Arirang News/YouTube)
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The B-21 Raider at a public unveiling ceremony on December 2, 2022, in Palmdale, California. (US Air Force)
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
