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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
Missile Defense
Missile Defense
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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)
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An unarmed Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. (USAF/Getty Images)
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A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test June 22, 2006 in the Pacific Ocean. (Chris Bishop/U.S. Navy via 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
