Six other groups in the agreement deploy smaller armies.
As part of this agreement, NATO deployed a UN-mandated peacekeeping force, under Operation Joint Endeavor, named IFOR.
Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, Poland's chief negotiator, had insisted that an agreement to deploy 10 interceptors for the antimissile system depended on another accord whereby the United States would modernize Poland's air defense system by providing Patriots.
In Australia, he announced an agreement to deploy 2,500 Marines plus naval ships and aircraft to a base in Darwin starting next year.
But an announcement earlier in the day that the United States and Japan had reached a major agreement to deploy a second advanced missile-defense radar on Japanese territory prompted immediate criticism in China.
And last September, during his travels in the region, Mr. Panetta and his Japanese hosts announced a major agreement to deploy a second advanced missile-defense radar on Japanese territory.
In September, Japan and the United States reached a major agreement to deploy a second American advanced missile-defense radar on Japanese territory, which was also immediately criticized by the Chinese.
China has been sensitive to any moves to support Japan, however, and last week some officials complained that an agreement to deploy a second advanced missile-defense radar on Japanese territory helped embolden the country in the territorial dispute.
BEIJING — Tensions between China and the United States and its Asian allies escalated on Monday as several well-connected Chinese experts immediately criticized an announcement earlier in the day that the United States and Japan had reached a major agreement to deploy a second advanced missile-defense radar on Japanese territory.
In the next few days, Toshiba, the contractor in charge of the initial cleanup work, and the laboratory expect to sign a formal agreement to deploy a new technology that experts believe will yield three-dimensional images of the wrecked reactor cores, and will be able to differentiate the uranium and plutonium from other materials, even when 10 feet of concrete and steel are in the way.
