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From: Nikole Wollerstein	9/2/2006 12:59:48 AM
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Not much of this peace in the news; may be tomorrow US interceptor destroys mock warhead over Pacific Los Angels, Sept.2 (AP): An interceptor missile destroyed a mock warhead in space over the Pacific Ocean, a key test of the US missile defence system that prompted North Korea to accuse America of threatening war. It was the most realistic test of the systems that would be used against an attack, Missile Defence Agency spokesman Rick Lehner said Friday. The 54-foot interceptor shot out of an underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast at 10:39 a.m. (1739 GMT), 17 minutes after the mock warhead was launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska, Lehner said. The interceptor carried a refrigerator-sized ``kill vehicle'' that locked on to the approaching mock enemy missile and flew into the 4-foot-long (1-meter-long)warhead at 18,000 mph (29,000 kph). Lehner said both disintegrated more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) above the Earth and a few hundred miles (kilometers) west of Vandenberg. The interceptor's flight lasted 13 minutes. North Korea characterised the test as provocation

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