1.The Russians remain implacably opposed to letting Bush build a ground-based mid-course interceptor—the GBI—base in Poland to try to shoot down any future Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11.For instance, two countries that the U.S. sees as threats, North Korea and Iran, have far more missiles than the U.S. or any other country has interceptors.
12.Soon after, in 1953, the French government and its Air Force requested an interceptor capable of taking out any Soviet bombers and being able to do it fast.
13.Other options for missile defense could include lasers deployed from drones that would destroy incoming weapons and a system that's now in place uses interceptor missiles to blow up ones that are in flight.
14.Saturday night, these defense systems seem to have worked, with Israel reporting no injuries suffered directly from an Iranian projectile, although it is believed that a seven-year-old girl fell victim to shrapnel from an Israeli interceptor missile.