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US touts 'excellent record' on complying with disarmanent obligations
United Nations (AFP) Oct 15, 2007Top US disarmament officials briefed a UN General Assembly panel here Monday on Washington's efforts to sharply reduce its nuclear stockpile in line with its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). "By the time we are done in 2012, we will have reduced the US stockpile, the operationally deployed warheads by 80 percent and the total stockpile will be reduced to one quar ... more Walker's World: Inflating Russian reality 
Milan, Italy (UPI) Oct 15, 2007 When the American secretaries of state and defense went to Moscow to see Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, they did not talk about the one topic on the minds of most ordinary Russians: the soaring cost of food. Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates talked about Iran's nuclear ambitions and the prospects of persuading Russia to join the United States and its European allies in impo ... more Analysis: New homeland security strategy 
Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2007 President Bush's homeland security adviser Fran Townsend says there will be no major changes to the administration's controversial border and identity programs as a result of the White House's new National Strategy for Homeland Security. The new strategy, which replaces one written in 2002, for the first time defines the goal of homeland security as "sustain(ing) our way of life as a fr ... more Defense Focus: Border business -- Part 1 
Jerusalem (UPI) Oct 15, 2007 Good fences, as Robert Frost famously wrote, make good neighbors. In fact, the poet was being ironic. Massive border defenses are a testament to tensions between states, but they are also a way to manage them short of war. And border fences have become surprisingly good business for U.S. and international defense contractors in recent years. Only a few years ago, security fences along n ... more IAEA unaware of 'undeclared nuclear facility' in Syria 
Vienna (AFP) Oct 15, 2007The UN nuclear watchdog said Monday it had no information about any "undeclared nuclear facility in Syria" and it was investigating media reports that such a site had been the target of a recent Israeli air strike. The International Atomic Energy Agency "has no information about any undeclared nuclear facility in Syria and no information about recent reports," spokeswoman Melissa Fleming sai ... more |
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Millington TN (AFNS) Oct 16, 2007With a snip of the scissors, the Chief of Naval Personnel streamlined the process of selecting the Navy's future chiefs, officers, and even astronauts, during a ribbon cutting ceremony, Oct. 10. Vice Adm. John C. Harvey Jr. and Rear Adm. Edward "Sonny" Masso, commander, Navy Personnel Command/Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel, visited the selection board center at Navy Personnel Command (NPC) to l ... more Northrop Grumman's LITENING AT System Completes Bold Quest Demonstration 
Rolling Meadows IL (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Northrop Grumman has announced the successful demonstration of the company's LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT) system, the only targeting and sensor pod invited by the U.S. Air Force to participate in Bold Quest, a U.S. Joint Forces Command-sponsored military exercise. During the joint forces exercise, an enhanced LITENING AT demonstrated advanced targeting, surveillance and net-centric war ... more NKorea beefs up security around nuclear test site: report 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 15, 2007North Korea is beefing up security measures around its first nuclear test site in an apparent bid to stop unauthorised sampling of soil in the area, a report said Monday. Chosun Ilbo newspaper quoted an unnamed government source as saying the North had started building a fence and reinforcing troops around the site of the 2006 underground nuclear test at Punggyeri in the northeastern county ... more Iran nuclear talks put off due to apparent Chinese rebuff 
Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2007A meeting of world powers on the Iranian nuclear crisis has been postponed in an apparent sign of Chinese displeasure over this week's high profile visit by Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a US official said Monday. The Wednesday meeting of top officials from the five UN Security Council permanent members and Germany in Berlin has been postponed to next week, the official said. ... more Outside View: U.S., Russia at odds on BMD 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 On Friday and Saturday the Russian and U.S. foreign and defense ministers are planning to discuss in Moscow the U.S. plan to create the third position area in Europe for its national missile defense system. By tradition, on the eve of the meeting the sides outlined their positions on the issue. It is obvious the United States is not going to meet Moscow halfway and drop this plan. Nor ... more |
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London UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Despite its deadly reputation, the gas carbon monoxide (CO) could actually save lives and boost health in future as a result of leading-edge UK research. Chemists at the University of Sheffield have discovered an innovative way of using targeted small doses of CO which could benefit patients who have undergone heart surgery or organ transplants and people suffering from high blood pressure. ... more President Of China Calls For Peace Agreement With Taiwan 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2007Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday called for a peace agreement with long-time rival Taiwan, but insisted independence for the island would never be tolerated. "We would like to make a solemn appeal," Hu said at the opening of the ruling Communist Party's five-yearly Congress. "On the basis of the one-China principle, let us discuss a formal end to the state of hostility between the t ... more Brazil's leader calls on Africa to embrace biofuels production 
Ouagadougou (AFP) Oct 15, 2007Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva called Monday on Africa to join a biofuels "revolution" to democratize access to energy across the continent. "Brazil invites Burkina Faso and all of Africa to join the biofuels revolution. With biofuels we can democratize access to energy in Africa," Lula said. The Brazilian leader spoke at an international colloquium on democracy and deve ... more China's economic growth exacting too high a toll: Hu 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 15, 2007President Hu Jintao said Monday that China's blistering economic growth was taking too high a toll on the nation's environment and society, and promised steps to limit the impacts. "Our economic growth is realised at an excessively high cost in resources and to the environment," Hu said in a speech opening the five-yearly Communist Party Congress, China's most important political event. ... more Software Overcomes Problems Of Operating Research Tools Over The Internet 
Columbus OH (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Software under development at Ohio State University is helping scientists operate big-budget research instruments -- such as high-powered microscopes and telescopes -- over the Internet, more safely and efficiently than was possible before. The need for such remote operation is growing, and it's driven by the costs of doing research, explained Prasad Calyam, a doctoral student in electrical and ... more
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