NMD Test Decision To Be Announced Tuesday

By Thomas Duffy / November 26, 2001 at 5:00 AM
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization will announce tomorrow whether it will hold a national missile defense intercept test on Nov. 29, an agency spokesman said today. Lt. Col. Rick Lehner told InsideDefense.com that Maj. Gen. Willie Nance, program executive officer for the ground-based missile defense segment of the missile defense program, is at Kwajalein Missile Range in the Pacific Ocean to review test plans. He will decide tonight whether the test can be held Thursday, according to Lehner, and an...

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