The President's proposal on anti-missile defenses, unlike most of the other elements in his plan, is sure to prove controversial.

The budget for the politically beleaguered project has been cut, but the program continues to conduct experiments toward an anti-missile defense.

He would spend $4.3 billion on anti-missile defenses.

Sensing the anxiety, Congress wants to deploy anti-missile defenses on the ground, starting in 1996.

Limited anti-missile defenses could protect the nation against only some dangers.

Having renounced anti-missile defenses for two decades, why do some senators now find them so irresistible?

Those treaty requirements are intended to prevent each side from developing a nationwide anti-missile defense.

Signed in 1972, the agreement restricts the testing and deployment of anti-missile defenses.

The strict limits on anti-missile defenses have helped make the reductions in nuclear offenses possible.

But Republicans have also seized upon anti-missile defense as an issue.