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Russian Officials Tout Iskander MIRV As 21st Century ABM Buster
Kostroma, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 30, 2007The commander of the Russian Ground Forces, Alexei Maslov, said Wednesday Russia has "a 21st century weapon," following two successful missile tests Tuesday. Earlier commenting on the tests - of a strategic RS-24 MIRV intercontinental missile launched from the north and a new version of the Iskander (SS-26), an advanced theater-level surface-to-surface missile in the south - Russian First ... more Lithuania Fears Missile Attack From Rogue Nations 
Chisinau, Lithuania (AFP) May 30, 2007The ex-Soviet state Lithuania came out Wednesday in favour of a missile shield in Europe, pouring fuel on the heated row between Washington and Moscow over a project that Russia warns could reignite an arms race. "Our country needs these systems. There is a threat that in some years unstable countries will get the technical capability to attack. The world must restrain this process," Lithuanian ... more North Korea Blames US For Nuke Delay 
Seoul (AFP) May 30, 2007North Korea Wednesday urged South Korea to start delivering its promised rice aid and said the United States was to blame for the delay in carrying out a nuclear disarmament pact. The South, which is holding a four-day reconciliation meeting with its communist neighbour this week, says it will not start shipments until the nuclear-armed North begins shutting down its reactor. More than six ... more NATO Chopper Down In Afghanistan, Seven Soldiers Dead 
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP) May 31, 2007A helicopter carrying NATO-led military in Afghanistan went down late Wednesday, with seven soldiers "known dead," the force said as the Taliban claimed to have shot down the chopper. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) did not refer to the Taliban claim in a statement that announced the deaths but said the cause of the crash was being determined by military officials. ... more Koreas Discuss Reconciliation 
Seoul (UPI) May 30, 2007South and North Korea opened high-level reconciliation talks Wednesday amid lingering missile and nuclear threats. The South is trying to use this week's talks to make substantial steps toward reducing military tensions across the border and resolving the prolonged nuclear standoff. However, the North remains reluctant to address military issues, instead seeking to win much-needed economic and ... more |
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Amherst MA (SPX) May 31, 2007Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a synthetic polymer-a building block of plastics-that doesn't burn, making it an attractive alternative to traditional plastics, many of which are so flammable they are sometimes referred to as "solid gasoline." The new polymer wouldn't need the flame-retardant chemicals that are added to many plastics before they can be ... more Virtual Patient To Simulate Real-Time Organ Motions For Radiation Therapy 
Troy NY (SPX) May 31, 2007With a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a physics-based virtual model that can simulate a patient's breathing in real time. When used in conjunction with existing 3-D models, adding the fourth dimension of time could significantly improve the accuracy and effectiveness of radiation treatment for lung ... more US Makes World Bank Move 
Tokyo (UPI) May 30, 2007U.S. President George W. Bush's pick for the next World Bank president may be a surprisingly good one, but regardless of his abilities, Robert Zoellick is likely to face considerable opposition from some quarters. The president announced Wednesday that the former U.S. deputy secretary of state was his choice to replace Paul Wolfowitz, who is set to leave the bank June 30 amid a cloud of controve ... more Peabody And Rentech Partner Up For First Commercial US Coal-to-Liquids Facility 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 31, 2007Peabody Energy has announced it has entered into agreements with Rentech to fund up to $10 million of engineering and development costs for Rentech's planned coal-to-liquids project in Illinois and to supply the facility with nearly 1 million tons of coal annually. As part of the agreement, Peabody has an option to acquire a 20 percent equity interest in the project through increased funding. ... more Southern California Edison Assesses Advanced Coal Technologies 
Rosemead CA (SPX) May 31, 2007Edison International's electricity utility, Southern California Edison (SCE), has requested state regulatory approval to conduct the nation's first feasibility assessment of combining several advanced "clean" coal technologies, on a full commercial scale, in an effort to advance these emerging approaches to low-carbon generation. Elements SCE Proposes Combining for the First Time - ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 30, 2007On May 26, 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, or SALT, the first bilateral agreement of its kind. It included an interim agreement on certain measures with respect to the limitation of strategic offensive arms. The two leaders also signed the ABM Treaty. The former treaty sealed the alignment of forces in ground ... more Lockheed Martin Demonstrates High Altitude Launch Capability For Mk-54 Torpedoes 
Orlando FL (SPX) May 30, 2007Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated its High Altitude ASW Weapons Concept (HAAWC) from a P-3 aircraft recently. HAAWC employs the Lockheed Martin LongShot Wing Adapter Kit to allow the launch of torpedoes from high altitudes and long standoff ranges, allowing P-3 aircrews to remain beyond the reach of enemy air defenses. Additionally, the maneuverability of the concept allows for off-axis ... more Unseemly ABM Situation 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 30, 2007The U.S. president had an opportunity to imagine at the end of the past week what awaited him in the Czech Republic, which he is going to visit on June 4 as part of his tour of seven Central and West European countries. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Prague in protest against the U.S. plan to deploy military radar to the south-west of the Czech capital. ... more A Spiral Of Death Looms In Iraq As Mahdi Army Flexes In South 
Washingtion (UPI) May 29, 2007Almost 1,000 U.S. troops died in Iraq last year, and more than that could die in the coming year if current trends continue. The reason for these statements is that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating ominously. The risk is growing that unless rapid action is taken to avert it, the 147,000 U.S. troops currently deployed in that country could find themselves facing a Shiite Muslim militia ... more Raytheon Demonstrates Joint C3I Warfighter Interoperability 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) May 30, 2007Raytheon further demonstrated its leading edge Joint Battlefield Integration capability earlier this month with a real-time hardware in-the-loop demonstration of Joint Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (Joint C3I). The Joint C3I demonstration pushed required battlefield situational awareness to a new level by using existing and future communications infrastructures to enable ... more
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