International
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Business/FinancialMissile Defense Critic Lauds Obama Offer To Discuss Missile Defense
A long-time critic of the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system endorsed President Obama’s offer to discuss the EMD with Russians who vociferously oppose it. Theodore Postol, an MIT professor […]
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Business/Financial
Story Assails European Missile Defense Plan, Quotes Long-Time Foes Of Missile Shield
A USA Today story this morning asserted that the European Missile Defense (EMD) system would cost $9 billion to $13 billion and might not work, a report likely to be […]
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InternationalSpace Shuttle Discovery Blazes Off On Mission To Attach Last Major Section To International Space Station
Fuel Line Problems Finally Yield To Probe By Experts; Shuttle Flight Is Safe With No Foam Insulation Problems Seen Discovery Set To Reenter, Land On March 28 And we have […]
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Business/Financial
Iran Is Moving In Two Out Of Three Critical Areas Toward Developing Nuclear-Tipped Ballistic Missiles
U.S. Intelligence Unsure Whether Iran Already Bought Nuclear Bomb From Another Nation: Witnesses U.S. Intel Experts Say Iran Wields Technological Know-How To Build Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Iran is moving in […]
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Iran Hasn’t Yet Decided To Build Bomb, But Obstacles To Going Atomic Disappear
While Iran may not have made a political decision to build nuclear weapons, any obstacles to doing so are quickly disappearing, according to a paper from the Institute for Science […]
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Business/Financial
U.S. Has No Way To Know Who Launches Various Types Of Devastating Attacks
How Mutual Assured Destruction That Worked In 20th Century May Fail To Protect Nation In 21st Ballistic Missile Defense Might Be Only Feasible Response To Anonymous Strike The United States […]
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Business/Financial
China Goes Hyper-Aggressive, Endangers U.S. Ship, Threatens To Crash U.S. Treasury Securities
When United States Moves To Defend Its Unarmed Ship, China Sends Armed Patrol Boats To International Waters Chinese ships nearly caused a collision with an unarmed U.S. Navy surveillance ship […]
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Business/Financial
Space Junk Narrowly Misses Space Station As Crew Members Take Shelter In Soyuz; Incident Demonstrates Rising Space Junk Threat
A piece of space junk hurtling through the void narrowly missed hitting and depressurizing the $100 billion International Space Station, forcing station crew members to take brief shelter in a […]
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Business/Financial
Space Station Laboratory Research Yields Clues To Curbing Food Poisoning On Earth, NASA Reports
Research on the International Space Station (ISS) has discovered ways to lessen virulence of a common food poisoning disease organism, NASA announced. The organism that can cause food poisoning in […]
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ArmyGeneral Dynamics Awarded $33 Million For Iraq Tank Materials
General Dynamics [GD] Land Systems announced this week it has been awarded a $33 million contract to purchase long-lead materials for the production of 140 M1A1 SA (Situational Awareness) tanks […]