US: CLINTON PUTS MISSILE DEFENCE PROJECT ON HOLD

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President Bill Clinton has put the US missile defence project on indefinite hold after coming under international pressure to do so. The decision on deploying the US$ 60bn technology to destroy incoming missiles is left to his successor. He warned that we should not deploy the defence system until there is absolute confidence that it will work. Clinton authorised continued research and testing. Proponents of the scheme had argued that work should start next spring in order to be operational by 2005.

Product development, Strategy & planning, Ballistic Missile Defense Systems, Antimissile Surface-to-Air Missiles, Planning, Brief Article, Clinton, Bill, Antimissile missiles, Guided missile industry, Ballistic missile defenses, Surface to air missiles

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Protect us from Mars life forms, scientists tell Bush

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Space scientists have recommended that NASA should build a secure quarantine facility for the analysis of rock samples from Mars. There is concern that alien microbes could present a risk to life on earth.

Government regulation, Deep Space Probes, Research, Safety and security measures, Buildings and facilities, Mars (Planet), Space sciences, Natural history, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Laboratories, Space vehicles industry, Space probes

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