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US Congress Cuts Missile Defense, Space Weapons, Nuke Funding
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007A United State congressional panel has cut administration defense spending for next year by 9% of the total requested, blocking funds to build a missile base in Poland. In a resolution focused heavily on greater independent control over President Bush's missile defense projects, the House Armed Services Committee cut $764 million from the requested total of over $10 billion. ... more Nuclear Powers Clash With Iran At Non-Proliferation Conference 
Vienna (AFP) May 10, 2007Nuclear weapons states warned Thursday that peaceful use of nuclear energy requires honoring the Non-Proliferation Treaty but Iran rejected charges it is failing to do this. "The Iranian nuclear program does not currently respect the conditions set in the treaty for the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy," French ambassador Jean-Francois Dobelle told 130 states at a conference in ... more North Korean Funds Could End Up In US Bank 
Washington (AFP) May 10, 2007The United States has indicated it would consider allowing North Korea to transfer 25 million dollars from Macau to an account in a US bank in a bid to firm up an agreed deal for Pyongyang to shut down its main nuclear reactor, The Washington Times reported Thursday. "The State Department said it badly wanted the North Koreans to withdraw their money from Banco Delta Asia (BDA), which was ... more Iran Has The Wrong Woman Locked Up 
Washington (UPI) May 10, 2007Having some knowledge and experience of Iran, this reporter was never wholly convinced of the "Axis of Evil" status that was applied to the country by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address in January 2002. It was a time when American judgments were shaped and perhaps somewhat warped by the hideous experience of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. ... more Key Arms Control Treaty On Verge Of Collapse Says Russian General 
Brussels (AFP) May 10, 2007Russia's top general said Thursday that an important Soviet-era arms treaty frozen by Moscow last month was "on the verge of collapse. Today I can say the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty is on the verge of collapse," General Yuri Baluyevskyi, the chief of Russia's armed forces, told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels. "But Russia did not want it," he said, following talk ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) May 10, 2007When emergency teams are well informed and governments can coordinate their efforts, lives and property can be saved. The Health Early Warning System, a project supported by ESA, is intended to bring this benefit to Europe. Extreme natural phenomena like tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes have featured prominently in the news. So, too, has the rapid spread of new diseases such as SARS and avia ... more New 1/f Noise Discovery Promises To Improve Semiconductor-Based Sensor 
Argonne IL (SPX) May 10, 2007More sensitive sensors and detectors based on semiconductor electronics could result from new findings by researchers from the United States, Norway and Russia. Their research has yielded a decisive step in identifying the origin of the universal "one-over-f" (1/f) noise phenomenon; "f" stands for "frequency." "One-over-f noise appears almost everywhere, from electronic devices and fatigue ... more Pakistani Nukes May Resurface 
Washington (UPI) May 9, 2007The black-market nuclear network established by the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, A.Q. Khan, broken up in 2004, may be dormant but could resume operations in the future, according to a just-released report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The IISS study found no evidence to indicate that Pakistan sanctioned or encouraged the sales of nuclear technology a ... more Secrets Of The Surge 
Washington (UPI) May 9, 2007Statistics compiled by the Iraq Index Project of the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, reveal sometimes surprising details of the impact President George W. Bush's "surge" strategy is having on the war in Iraq. Nations are usually assumed to implement wartime policies and strategies at lightning speed, though this is far from always the case. The implementation of the surge has bee ... more US Warns About Iran Withdrawing From Nuclear Treaty While Blix Says Talk Now 
Vienna (AFP) May 9, 2007The United States warned Wednesday about the danger of Iran possibly withdrawing from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the world's basic agreement against the spread of nuclear weapons. "Disturbingly, since Iran's multiple and ongoing violations of its NPT obligations have come to light, its leaders have hinted that they too are considering withdrawal" as North Korea did from the treaty in 2003, US ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 9, 2007U.S. forces in Europe are being rapidly decreased. In the late 1980s there were four divisions, plus one brigade in West Berlin and nine tactical wings of the U.S. Air Force. Now there are two divisions, one brigade and three wings; moreover, both divisions are actually not even in Germany but in Iraq. The United States has signed agreements on leasing some facilities in Bulgaria, Romania ... more Germany Braces For G8 Troubles Against Fears Of 1970s Tactics 
Berlin (UPI) May 9, 2007Ahead of June's Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, German security officials are cracking down harder on radical left-wing groups, and Berlin has received tips that attacks are set before and during the high-profile meeting. Wednesday morning two police vans stopped, tires screeching, in front of the Mehringhof, a large left-wing cultural center and office building in Berlin's Kreuzberg dist ... more White House Denies Iraq War Hampers Home Rescue Efforts 
Washington (AFP) May 08, 2007The White House on Tuesday dismissed charges that the Iraq war effort had stripped the United States of resources needed to fight catastrophes at home in the wake of a devastating Kansas tornado. "I think they're separate issues... just as in a time of war, you know, the Pentagon plans for more than one conflict at a time, you have to be able to do more than one thing at a time," White House spo ... more Bridges Will Rock Safely During Quakes With New Design 
Buffalo NY (SPX) May 10, 2007Bridges that "dance" during earthquakes could be the safest and least expensive to build, retrofit and repair, according to earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER. The researchers recently developed and successfully tested the first seismic design methodology for bridge towers that respond to ground motions by literally jumping a few inches off the ground. The new meth ... more A Russian Comeback To Central Asia More Than A Pipe Dream 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 10, 2007When Vladimir Putin became president seven years ago, he made a blitz tour of post-Soviet Central Asia. One of the problems he inherited from Boris Yeltsin was lack of proper relations with the former "fraternal" Central Asian republics, which had become members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The niche voluntarily vacated by Russia did not remain empty for a long time. Ce ... more
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