I've been suggesting that the administration should have been looking at boost-phase and actually space-based use of lasers all along, but they've opposed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Clinton Delivers Speech on National Missile Defense - September 1, 2000] Reference

There's a real question -- terminal intercept is the most difficult kind of ABM system and we should have been exploring all these years other things like boost-phase intercept.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Clinton Delivers Speech on National Missile Defense - September 1, 2000] Reference

As Noah noted earlier today, one major boost-phase program is already in the crosshairs: the laser-equipped Boeing 747 that is supposed to zap missiles out of the sky as they rise from the launch pad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

According to the Russians, the Topol-M has high-speed solid-fuel boosters that rapidly lift the missile into the atmosphere, making boost-phase interception impossible unless one is located practically next door to the launcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2005 Archives] Reference

And theater missile defense, for a variety of technical reasons, cannot deal with an ICBM -- or at least we're not sure, we don't have any reason for confidence that we could develop a system of, say -- just for example, since it's been in the news -- theater-based boost-phase intercept, in anything like the time frame in which this threat is maturing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Deputy Secretary Of State Strobe Talbott] Reference

If in fact we worked on out with the Russians that we could amend the ABM treaty to allow a boost-phase intercept -- that's a fancy phrase for saying when someone goes to launch a missile that you shoot before it gets high and fast, you shoot it from behind, like a heat-sinking missile and kill it, well, that kind of system would not threaten the existing arsenals in China and/or in Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 1, 2001] Reference

While air-launched boost-phase intercept (BPI) seems viable for the Americans to take down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alert 5] Reference

Other than a boost-phase intercept, there is no way a shootdown can deny them that test information.    From Wordnik.com.  [In From the Cold] Reference

In addition, the Administration stopped the plan to expand the only boost-phase missile defense program left.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foundry] Reference

There are already several promising approaches to achieving boost-phase interception that offer a low-cost path for moving forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

This "boost-phase defense" is precisely the kind of system needed to counter long-range nuclear missiles launched from North Korea or elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Front Page - The Washington Times] Reference

Step #6: Continue boost-phase missile defense programs by focusing on developing and fielding interceptors derived from modified air-to-air missiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

Solid-fueled missiles accelerate more quickly than the liquid-fueled variety, raising questions about the viability of boost-phase defenses, as noted in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArmsControlWonk] Reference

With regard to attacking warheads later in their trajectory, boost-phase interception makes that task much easier by thinning out or entirely eliminating threats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

If, however, one did want to discuss the specifics of an approach to a tactically innovative way to have a boost-phase intercept of a ballistic missile, one could express a start as in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

It is necessary to describe the ballistic-missile threat, detail U.S. government plans for countering it, and then explain why boost-phase interception offers the greatest potential for effective defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

With regard to deterrence and arms control, boost-phase interception reduces the military value of ballistic missiles so that countries possessing them are less likely to take risks and more likely to disarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

For example, some of the systems we are pursuing, such as boost-phase defenses, are intended to be capable of intercepting missiles of all ranges, blurring the distinction between theater and national defenses; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missilethreat.com] Reference

The ship -- based Aegis and Army PAC-3 systems have the advantage of forward deployment, where they can be used for early (boost-phase) intercept of enemy missiles, or can provide terminal defense for allies and overseas U.S. forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defense Tech] Reference

Although current developing boost-phase technology focuses mainly on ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads, the concepts and programs it explores are equally applicable to ballistic missiles carrying other kinds of kill mechanisms -- such as those that threaten U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

The Administration's new emphasis on ascent-phase intercept capabilities has come largely at the expense of boost-phase systems, specifically with termination of the KEI program and curtailment of the ABL program, but there remain strong arguments for retaining boost-phase options.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

Although current developing boost-phase technology focuses mainly on ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads, the concepts and programs it explores are equally applicable to ballistic missiles carrying other kinds of kill mechanisms -- such as those that threaten U.S. forward-deployed forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

And in the Obama administration's defense budget proposal, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will push for cuts in research into boost-phase intercept technology, in part because, as Nathan Hodge notes at Danger Room, Gates believes that midcourse and terminal phase missile defense systems are sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Observing Japan] Reference

(KEI) program for intercepting ballistic missiles in the boost-phase stage of flight; defer the purchase of a second Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft, also designed to intercept ballistic missiles in the boost-phase stage; increase funding for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor, including for procurement; and increase funding for sea-based ballistic missile defense, including for conversion of additional ships to give them missile defense capabilities and procurement of Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference