By Emelie Rutherford Defense Secretary Robert Gates told senators yesterday he would support increasing the number of ground-based missile interceptors in the United States--despite the lack of funding for more in the Pentagon's budget proposal--if he is advised they are needed to protect against North Korea. "The judgment and the advice that I got was that the 30 (missile) silos that we have now or are under construction (in Alaska and California) are fully adequate to protect us against a…
Gates Repeats Flexibility On Missile Interceptors
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