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A new missile was installed in a silo at Fort Greely last month, the 22nd interceptor at the Missile Defense Agency site outside Delta Junction. Ralph Scott, the spokesman for Alaska Missile Defense, said the latest installation is part of an effort to steadily add missiles at the site. The Defense Department has plans to install 26 missiles at Fort Greely, with the process to be completed by October. Fort Greely is one of two sites in the U.S. with deployed interceptor missiles, according to the Missile Defense Agency Web site, joining three missiles at Vandenberg Air Force Base in...

Security: As Defense Secretary Gates tours our missile defense site at Fort Greely, Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin calls for restoration of the missile defense cuts. Meanwhile, North Korea points another missile at the U.S.

As Defense Secretary Gates tours our missile defense site at Fort Greely, Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin calls for restoration of the missile defense cuts. Meanwhile, North Korea points another missile at the U.S. Robert Gates' visit to our missile defense facility at Fort Greely on Monday was a pointed reminder to the North Koreans that while we have been talking softly, we still have a few big sticks in the ground ready to turn the North Korean missile program into so much scrap metal.

Note: Photos included. Note: The following text is a quote: Gates Gets Up-close Look at U.S. Missile Defense By Fred W. Baker III American Forces Press Service GREELY, Alaska, June 2, 2009 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stepped down inside a missile silo here yesterday to get an up-close look at the system he says will protect the United States from an intercontinental ballistic missile threat. Gates stopped here on his way back from an Asia security summit in Singapore, where North Korea’s recent nuclear and missile tests dominated the discussions of defense ministers from countries across the region....

Defense Secretary Gates to Visit Alaska Senator Begich to accompany Secretary on tour of Fort Greely FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will join Senator Mark Begich on a tour of Alaska's Fort Greely on Monday. Traveling back from Asia, Sec. Gates is stopping at military facilities in Alaska which will include Elmendorf Air Force Base and touring the missile defense site at Fort Greely. "This is an excellent opportunity for Secretary Gates to get a first-hand look at our missile defense system," Sen. Begich said. "Especially now, with the escalating and unpredictable behavior of North Korea,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-75 Governor Palin Stresses Need for Strong Missile Defense Capability April 6, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Responding to the missile test by North Korea, Governor Sarah Palin today reaffirmed Alaska’s commitment to protecting America from rogue nation missile attacks. “I am deeply concerned with North Korea’s development and testing program which has clear potential of impacting Alaska, a sovereign state of the United States, with a potentially nuclear armed warhead,” Governor Palin said. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that we continue to develop and perfect the global missile defense network. Alaska’s strategic location...

The Department of Defense will soon conduct the latest in a series of exercises designed to strengthen America's ability to intercept long-range ballistic missiles. Events in the last two months, both in the Pacific and Middle East, have shown that concern about the missile threat is valid. North Korea, in defiance of the international community, continues to test its long-range missiles and is developing a missile capable of reaching the west coast of the United States. And, as President Bush has noted, Iran, which is developing long-range missiles, and Syria, which is improving its shorter-range missiles, are the sponsors of...

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – U.S. Northern Command officials acknowledged today that the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has launched a sixth short-range ballistic missile from Kittaeryong into the Sea of Japan. It is the seventh launch from the DPRK that trained personnel stationed at the headquarters of the command based in Colorado Springs, Colo., have been able to detect and monitor since Tuesday. USNORTHCOM personnel continue to monitor using various worldwide ground-, sea- and space-based sensors. While Ground-based Midcourse Defense System interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., were operational during the flight, top...

WASHINGTON — Those in charge of the nation’s missile defense system have often said the interceptors based at Fort Greely could be used in a pinch. Today, amid reports that North Korea is about to launch a missile capable of reaching the United States, officials wouldn’t say whether that pinch has arrived. “There are many options available, and we are simply not going to tip our hand as to what the possible response would be,” White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters on a flight to Vienna with President Bush earlier today. Snow’s comments were made to pool reporters traveling...

ST. LOUIS, September 21, 2005 –- The Boeing [NYSE: BA] Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program team and the Missile Defense Agency emplaced the ninth GMD interceptor in its underground silo at Fort Greely, Alaska on Sept. 18. The operation involved the use of a special crane to lower the interceptor into the silo. This is the seventh interceptor emplaced at the Fort Greely Site. Two interceptors also were emplaced at the GMD Site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in 2004. The GMD system consists of integrated ground-based interceptors, a variety of sensors and an expansive battle management command,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is readying an ultra-sophisticated radar system to float slowly around the world to Alaska where it will play a key role in a multibillion-dollar project to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles. The 2,000-ton Sea-Based X-Band Radar is to be hoisted aboard a platform as large as two football fields this week or next, depending on wind and weather in Corpus Christi, Texas, where it has been under initial sea trials. The radar is designed to track and distinguish long-range ballistic missiles from decoys that could be used in an attack on the United States....

WASHINGTON--The military installed its sixth and final interceptor of the year at Fort Greely on Thursday, but the ground-based, mid-course missile defense system has yet to be declared in working form. The 55-foot interceptors at Fort Greely, 100 miles southeast of Fairbanks, are designed to shoot down a warhead launched by an enemy missile from overseas. The Bush administration had pushed to start up the system this fall, a goal that some critics saw as political. The 2004 general election went by, though, without the sixth interceptor in place and with no declaration of "initial defensive capability," as the military...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The military plans to place a sixth ballistic missile interceptor inside a silo at Fort Greely by the end of the month, as initial tests of a national defense system critics contend is highly flawed near their conclusion. To prepare for activation, the military is conducting exercises at the Interior Alaska post, where five of the 55-foot-long rockets have been installed since July, as an essential component of the Bush administration's national security policy. The first two interceptors destined for Vandenberg Air Force Base in California will go into existing silos in November, with two more scheduled...

icle Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 Missile installed at GreelyBy DANIEL RICE, Staff Writer • FORT GREELY--Against the backdrop of dust devils whipped up by trademark Delta Junction-area winds, a crane operator slowly lowered a 54-foot missile into a launching silo Thursday while senior Army officers and military contract workers watched proudly from about a football field's distance away. More than two decades after the idea of a missile defense system was conceived during the Reagan administration, workers at Fort Greely installed the first interceptor missile in a launching pad picked for Alaska's strategic location in the globe. About a...

Fort Greely, just outside Delta Junction, will be the site of another military milestone on Saturday with a ceremony marking completion of the first six silos for the new national missile defense system. And, as if to punctuate the reality of it all, the first missile booster rocket has been delivered to the post. That first missile could be operational sometime next month, with five more to follow this year. The six will be housed in the recently completed first pad, which can hold up to 20 missiles. An additional 10 are to come next year, followed by 10 more...

Toxic Tugs - Public Poisons by J.B. Stone - 04/17/02 What do Maryland, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, Johnston Atoll, and the Marshall Islands have in common? BioChemical warfare tests were conducted in all of them behind a blinding haze of Cold War secrecy. And hardly a word of warning was ever issued, before during, or afterward the test conductors, subjects, or citizens living in surrounding areas. Marine jets and Army artillery sprayed "harmless simulants" and live biological and chemical agents on unsuspecting citizens for 15 years on land and sea during Operation Deseret. The randomly selected human test rats onboard ships...