Japanese effort to construct a missile-defense shield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asia’s Dangerous Divide] Reference

Reagan also envisioned the Star Wars missile-defense program.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2004] Reference

We'll be implementing a missile-defense system relatively quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2004] Reference

Insofar as a missile-defense system, we have a right to defend ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2001] Reference

Russia has got an inventory that could overpower any missile-defense system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Havoc in Germany] Reference

Carl, no one's really sure a missile-defense shield will even work, are they?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2001] Reference

Rumsfeld pledged to move forward on an elaborate and costly missile-defense system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2001] Reference

You know the plan for testing, research, development of the missile-defense program.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2001] Reference

Basketball probably won't throw missile-defense disputes off the radar, but who knows?.    From Wordnik.com.  [East Meets West] Reference

He scrapped far-out missile-defense schemes and gave priority to near-term alternatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War Within] Reference

Czech and Police citizens who demonstrated over the missile-defense plan remain divided.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007] Reference

Is that your timetable for finishing at least the ABM missile-defense part of this equation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2001] Reference

O'BRIEN: So if you were to design a missile-defense research program, what would do you then?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2006] Reference

To pay for it, he'd kill Bush's missile-defense shield and streamline bloated weapons programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE BUSH-WHACKER] Reference

The NEWSWEEK poll suggests that support for Bush's planned missile-defense shield is in decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsweek Poll: Bush Soars] Reference

The litigation revealed information on missile-defense testing that would normally be kept secret.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shot In The Dark] Reference

Postol himself, unlike some critics of NMD, is not ideologically against building a missile-defense system.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shot In The Dark] Reference

Simple: a missile-defense system is a great symbol — far more potent than any practical weaponry could ever be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missile Mystery] Reference

I mean, these two sides today at loggerheads over a number of issues, and it's not just this missile-defense plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007] Reference

The immediate issue was a missile-defense shield that Washington is trying to set up in Poland and the Czech Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold War II?] Reference

Russians look at Bush's plan to expand NATO and build a missile-defense system, and conclude that he is out to get them.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can't Please Everyone] Reference

And technologically, ideologically, everybody thinks they have to, sort of, bow to this idea of a missile-defense system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2000] Reference

Tokyo editorials urged the government to consider deploying spy satellites and a missile-defense system against Pyongyang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Ballistic] Reference

BECK: Apparently, the Pentagon activated a missile-defense shield yesterday in response to North Korea ` s missile launches.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2006] Reference

CLANCY: U.S. S.cretary of S.ate Condoleezza Rice is defending U.S. plans to build a missile-defense system in eastern Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2007] Reference

Another example of Bush's magic realism is the strategic missile-defense shield that he has promised to have up and running by 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Planet Bush] Reference

That's the main difference I have with the way this administration is wasting money rigging the tests for this missile-defense system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2006] Reference

But if it does become a U.S. missile-defense shield site, then suddenly it will become the focus, too, for Washington, Warsaw and Kremlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007] Reference