Missile Defense - Assistant Secretary Clarke
August 17, 2001 - "Missile defense is one piece of a broader, deterrent strategy, and part of that strategy is to discourage and dissuade people from getting into these areas, making mischief in these areas, by making them believe it's just not worth the return on investment."
Interview with WTCM-AM, Traverse City, Mich.

ABM Treaty - Assistant Secretary Clarke
August 17, 2001 - "What we're trying to do right now, as President Bush and the secretary of Defense have spoken to, is move beyond the ABM Treaty to a new relationship with Russia that covers a much broader range of issues. It covers political, economic and security matters. But we have not violated the ABM and don't intend to."
Interview with WKZO-AM, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Russia - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
August 13, 2001 - "...The discussions have ranged across the full spectrum of political, economic, and security issues. We discussed, as the minister indicated, problems of terrorism, as well as the issues of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles and other types of threats that exist in this new world. We spent a good deal of time on the reality that our relationships have been changed dramatically over the past decade and that it is, in fact, time to acknowledge those changes and address the subject as to how we might best be arranged going forward."  
(Remarks by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and Secretary Rumsfeld after their meeting with Russian President Putin.)

Russia - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
August 13, 2001 - "...Because of the extensive proliferation of technologies relating to ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction, that it was our estimate that several states could have ballistic missiles capable of reaching Europe and the United States within a period of five years. It was not a prediction that somebody would fire a ballistic missile at Europe or the United States within five years... ."  Media Availability with Russian Journalists

Ballistic Missile Test - Maj. Gen. Nance, Program Executive Officer, Ground-Based Missile Defense Segment of BMDO
August 9, 2001 - "In summary up front, it was a good test. The system and the elements performed for the most part as expected. We did have one anomaly, and I think you may have heard about that, the ground-based radar prototype, which is a prototype of the X-band radar. It is located at Kwajalein missile range. One of the last objectives, in fact the last objective that we wanted it to perform was to switch its track from the re-entry vehicle to the kill vehicle and report if it could hit, and so conduct as an objective its ability to perform hit assessment. It did not successfully do that. And it was a software issue. I'm going to spend a little time later on explaining that."
MG Nance Provides Update on Missile Test

Missile Defense - Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
August 6, 2001 - "The goal here is defense against limited missile attacks which would most seriously and likely come from a hostile country... ."
(Interview with Charles Jaco, KMOX News Radio, St. Louis, MO)

Missile Defense - Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
August 2, 2001 - "I think it's worth emphasizing that on the shorter-range systems we've done even more than just tests. We now, I think it's had success in something like 11 out of 12 tests of the Patriot-3 missile which is a missile that could provide defense against the kind of SCUD missiles that were attacking us and attacking Israel during the Gulf War. If we had had that system deployed at the time ten years ago we could have protected Israel much better and saved those 24 Americans who were killed in the SCUD attack."

"What we want to do is be able to provide that same capability for the United States. I don't know you're... Judging from polls, most of your listeners are completely unaware that if an errant missile were to be aimed at Chicago today by accident or even a hostile one, we would have no capability whatsoever to shoot it down."
(Interview with Andrea Deralis, WGN Radio, Chicago)