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U.S. and Polish officials are discussing building a base in Poland from which U.S. interceptors could shoot down long-range missiles as part of a global defense network, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.
It would be the first American strategic missile defense site outside U.S. territory, and would be designed to defend all of Europe against intercontinental-range missiles — primarily those launched from the Middle East.
No decision has been made to proceed with a missile defense base in Poland, and alternative sites in Europe are a possibility. But the Pentagon official said Poland appears to be the most likely host country for the kind of American military installation that would have been unthinkable before Poland joined NATO in 1999.
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