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antiballistic missile

NOUN
powered defense weapon
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The center does real-time operational forecasting for the military, for example, at the antiballistic missile systems site at Fort Greely, Alaska, and has done the computer modeling that has helped improve forecasting of wildfire behavior.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

This policy reflected an “unacknowledged arms-control understanding” between the United States and the Soviet Union that was, he said, the most important agreement of the Cold War, after the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2016

President Richard Nixon disbanded his council of scientific advisers in 1973 after its views clashed with his plans for an antiballistic missile system and supersonic airliners.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 20, 2016

Washington has urged the gulf states to better coordinate their defense systems so that they can create an integrated antiballistic missile umbrella instead of running their own systems independently of each other.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2015

In 1974, a protocol was signed that reduced antiballistic missile sites to one per country, since neither country had yet begun to build its second system.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014