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US: Missile shield 'deactivated' until Iran tools up

The Register: US defence secretary Robert Gates, seeking to allay Russian concerns, has suggested that European elements of the planned American missile shield might be built but not "activated" unless a threat from Iran developed.

Posted by Physics Today on October 24, 2007 11:36 AM |

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