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North Korea May Disable Nukes Before Deadline But Wants A Light Water Reactor
Beijing (AFP) July 20, 2007North Korea may still declare all of its nuclear weapons and disable them this year even though no deadline was agreed upon at six-nation talks that ended here Friday, the US envoy said. "My opinion remains the same. All of this is do-able by the end of the year," Christopher Hill told reporters when asked about the failure to set the ambitious deadline during the three days of discussions in Be ... more Pressure Mounts To Dump Iraq Back On UN 
Washington (UPI) July 20, 2007The solution to the conflict in Iraq is not the American military but reconciliation through the United Nations, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said this week. "There will be no military solution in Iraq; there cannot be a military solution. There must be a political reconciliation," the maverick Republican senator and Vietnam War veteran said in a speech in Washington Wednesday at the Cato Institute ... more Russia Proposes Drafting Simpler START Arms Treaty 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 23, 2007Russia has proposed to the United States that the sides draft a simpler version of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a senior Defense Ministry official said Wednesday. The current START treaty expires December 5, 2009. "In our opinion, we should not allow a vacuum in the sphere of strategic arms control," Lieutenant General Yevgeny Buzhinsky said. "So far, the U.S. has not respo ... more Future Combat Systems Team To Initiate Production Planning 
St Louis MO (SPX) Jul 19, 2007Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, announced that the Army has authorized planning for FCS low-rate initial production, including long-lead items for the first FCS capability Spin Out and Manned Ground Vehicle (MGV) early production units. The latter is focused on the Non ... more Materiel Command On Track To Deliver More F-22s 
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) Jul 23, 2007With F-22 Raptor deliveries consistently on or ahead of schedule, Air Force officials received authorization from Congress to pursue multi-year agreements for Lots 7, 8 and 9, with the potential for cost savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The contracts with Lockheed Martin and Pratt and Whitney will be awarded later this summer. The 478th Aeronautical Systems Wing at the Aeron ... more |
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London (AFP) Jul 23, 2007The Royal Air Force (RAF) said Sunday it was carrying out probably its biggest peacetime rescue operation in Britain as its helicopters helped evacuate more than 100 people from flood-hit areas. The RAF's announcement highlighted the scale of the flooding in central and western England that caused a third day of chaos for motorists and rail passengers and forced hundreds of people to spend anoth ... more Technology Proves Precious In Deadly Japan Quake 
Tokyo (AFP) July 20, 2007Telephone connections are always among the most vulnerable lifelines in a natural disaster, but technology has turned into a crucial asset in Japan's latest earthquake. Japan's telecom operators, like other companies, suffered damage to infrastructure in Monday's 6.8 Richter-scale earthquake in central Niigata prefecture, which killed 10 people and injured more than 1,000 others. But the m ... more Insulin-Signaling Possible Key To Extended Longevity 
Boston (UPI) July 20, 2007New research shows it may be possible to one day take a life-extending pill that mimics the healthy effects of exercise and a low-calorie diet by lowering insulin signaling in the brain. The key to a longer life is lower insulin levels, said Morris White, a pediatrician and endocrinologist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Less insulin helps cells fend off diseases that lead to an early death, ... more FPL Energy Signs Deal With Citrus Energy For First Of Its Kind Ethanol Plant 
Juno Beach FL (SPX) Jul 23, 2007FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Citrus Energy, of Boca Raton, FL, to develop the first ever commercial scale citrus peel to ethanol plant. The cellulosic ethanol plant will be owned and operated by FPL Energy and is expected to produce four million gallons of ethanol per year. It will be located on the grounds of a local Florid ... more The Price Of The Question Is Too High 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 23, 2007Russia will not revise its agreements with British investment companies developing its oil and gas fields because of the sharpening of relations between the two countries, Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev said Tuesday. Trutnev was speaking at a meeting of the working group of the Advisory Council on Foreign Investments attended by representatives of foreign mining companies on July 17. ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 20, 2007King Frederick the Great of Prussia famously said, "He who tries to defend everything ends up defending nothing." Another way to formulate this classic military principle would be, "He tries to attack everything ends up winning nothing." U.S. General of the Army George C. Marshall and British Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, the operational heads of the U.S. and British armies in World War II, bot ... more ViaSat Wins Order In MIDS Tactical Network Terminal Lot 8 Award 
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2007ViaSat has won a delivery order valued at approximately $44.9 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System terminals from The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego. By gathering information into a digital view of the battlefield, MIDS provides greater situational awareness in combat for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and for U.S. defense partne ... more Current Nuclear Threat Worse Than During Cold War 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Jul 20, 2007The risks of an accidental nuclear war have increased since the Cold War as Russia's early warning capability has deteriorated, a former U.S. defense official said. William J. Perry, who is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford University, said in congressional testimony Wednesday that "the danger of nuclear war occurring by accid ... more US Marine Corps Begins Transitioning To Shadow Tactical UAS 
Hunt Valley MD (SPX) Jul 20, 2007United Industrial Corporation has announced that its AAI Corporation subsidiary has begun training U.S. Marine Corps personnel to fly and maintain Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft systems (TUAS) in preparation for the service's transition later this year to the Shadow surveillance, reconnaissance, and intelligence-gathering system. The Marine Corps has decided to retire its Pioneer unmann ... more Czech Opposition To Radar Plans Grows As Russia About Consequences 
Prague (AFP) July 19, 2007The number of Czechs opposed to siting a radar in their country as part of a US missile defence shield has risen to nearly two thirds, according to a poll published on Thursday. Some 65 percent of Czechs are opposed to the tracking radar, according to the CVVM poll of 1,013 people between June 4 and 11, up from 61 percent in a similar poll in May. Forty percent of those questioned in the latest ... more
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