WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- The head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency says Iran's recent missile launch proves the value of deploying a controversial missile defense system.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 5 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to sign a treaty allowing the installation of an anti-missile facility, Czech Republic officials said Saturday.

MOSCOW, June 5 (UPI) -- The Americans seem determined to flood outer space with weapons. In early April U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Henry Obering again called for the early deployment of space-based missile defense systems, a universal means of hitting either ground or space targets.

WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- It might be late summer before the United States can try again with a test of its missile-defense system that had to be scrubbed this week.

BERLIN, March 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. general leading the effort to build an antiballistic missile shield in Europe said in Berlin the project could be built by 2011 if started this year.

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- North Korea Saturday called a U.S. missile defense test a threat and vowed to strengthen its defense measures in response.

LIHUE, Hawaii, March 9 (UPI) -- Japan and the United States have successfully tested an upgraded version of the Standard Missile-3 interceptor missile off Hawaii. The test was carried out Wednesday off Kauai Island to check how well a Japanese-designed nose cone would separate from the

MOSCOW, April 15 (UPI) -- Russian officials have condemned U.S. plans to deploy weapons in space, but said a military presence in space remains a priority for their own country.