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Bill Nelson

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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.

Feb 13, 2003

If we are going to completely throw off the schedule of these folks, I do not want to do that.

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Feb 13, 2003

It is not clear how the national missile defense system to be deployed by 2004 will be manned 24 hours a day.

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Feb 13, 2003

You want that system in Alaska by the end of 2004.

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Feb 13, 2003

Secretary Crouch, when does the U.S. plan to upgrade the radars in the U.K. and Greenland for missile defense, and how much funding will be required to protect the upgraded radars and the local inhabitants from potential terrorist strikes…

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Feb 13, 2003

Although presumably the warhead would not be armed. Unless they do not have the arming techniques.

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Feb 13, 2003

What do you think about the potential side benefit of this kind of system?

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Feb 13, 2003

If you are going to have 16 more tests, and this thing is operational in 2004, you are really going to have a challenge of how do you pull it off of operational to get all those tests done.

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Feb 13, 2003

Do you not have a lot of promise on your boost phase right now with the Aegis system?

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Feb 13, 2003

If you can shoot down a rocket in its boost phase with a laser from a big airplane, you can shoot down anything.

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