The latest test of the Pentagon's

The latest test of the Pentagon's ground-based midcourse missile defense system failed Dec. 11 when the interceptor fired from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands didn't eject the exoatmospheric kill vehicle that intercepts the target. A similar failure occurred in a June 2000 test and was...

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