U.S. Recent Plans in National Air Defense: The East Asia Dimension
... particular significance are the U.S. plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons, including medium-range missiles, which further ... ... destruction capacity in the area of the Taiwan Strait, as well as Russia’s alleged deployment of missile weapons with an intermediate ... ... floating platforms are deployed in the Marshall Islands and bases in Japan. Since 2004, the United States has deployed 44 GBI (ground-based ... ... interceptors of different versions is 265 with more than a thousand SM-6 interceptors for destroying targets in the atmosphere ...