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WASHINGTON (AFP) Oct 27, 2004The United States plans to accelerate the deployment of Aegis warships in waters off North Korea to serve as forward radars for a missile defense system that is being readied for operations, a top US general said Tuesday. MP's Aim To Force Iran To Resume Uranium Enrichment 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 26, 2004Iranian MPs are Sunday to debate a bill which would force the government to resume uranium enrichment in defiance of the international community, the official news agency IRNA reported. "Ninety-three deputies have signed the bill," said Rafaat Bayat, a conservative MP whose faction controls the 290-seat parliament, quoted by IRNA. |
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DOD Scrambling For Missing Explosives Info
WASHINGTON (UPI) Oct 25, 2004The U.S. Defense Department Monday scrambled to track down records that might indicate where 380 tons of high explosives once stored at an Iraqi warehouse near Baghdad have gone. A Tough Nuclear Neighborhood 
WASHINGTON (UPI) Oct 25, 2004From the days of Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great who ruled the Persian Empire some 500 years before Christ through the Shah en Shah (king of kings) who lost his throne to revolutionary clerics in 1979, the talons of military supremacy ruled strategic thinking. The shah, not the ayatollahs, decided Iran would be a nuclear power. US Could Shoot Down Euro GPS Satellites If Used By China In Wartime: Report 
London (AFP) Oct 24, 2004The United States could attack Europe's planned network of global positioning satellites if it was used by a hostile power such as China, The Business weekly reported Sunday. Germany To Spend Up Big On Missile Air-Defense System 
Berlin (AFP) Oct 21, 2004Germany will spend more than a billion euros (1 billion dollars) over the next eight years on developing a ground-based missile air-defence system with the United States and Italy, an official said in an interview Thursday. Iran Conducts New Shahab-3 Missile Test 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 20, 2004Iran carried out a new test on Wednesday of its upgraded Shahab-3 ballistic missile, which it says has a range of at least 2,000 kilometres (about 1,200 miles), Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani said. "Starfleet Academy" - The Beginning 
Peterson AFB CO (AFPN) Oct 21, 2004Air Force Space Command officials stood up a space education and training organization here recently that they said will provide the foundation to creating a new generation of space professionals. Northrop Grumman Meets Critical Milestone In ICBM Modernization Program 
Clearfield UT (SPX) Oct 21, 2004Northrop Grumman reached a critical milestone this fall when the Air Force officially declared initial operational capability for a new emergency communications system in the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch control centers. |
Radioactive Garbage Causes Scare
Chicago (UPI) Oct 19, 2004The Illinois Emergency Management Agency found medical waste in a load of refuse from a Chicago garbage truck that set off radioactivity alarms. The contents of the truck were dumped and sorted after triggering alarms at the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation West Side recycling yard Monday. SI International Awarded ID/IQ Air Force Space Command Contract 
Reston VA (SPX) Oct 19, 2004SI International Monday announced that the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) has awarded SI International an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract for Advisory and Assistance Services and Engineering Technical Assistance (CAASETA) for Headquarters AFSPC at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Titan Wins $170 Million NORAD/NORTHCOM IT Support Contract 
San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2004The Titan Corporation announced Monday that it has been awarded the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) / U.S. Northern Command's (NORTHCOM) Command Information Sharing, Infrastructure, Architecture, Integration and Implementation and Operations Support contract. Boost-Phase Defense Not Effective For Protecting US: New Study 
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2004Intercepting missiles while their rockets are still burning would not be an effective approach for defending the U.S. against attacks by an important type of enemy missile. This conclusion comes from an independent study by the American Physical Society (APS) into the scientific and technical feasibility of boost-phase defense, published in the latest issue of the APS Reviews of Modern Physics. Britain Agrees To Station 'Son Of Star Wars' Missiles: Report 
London (AFP) Oct 17, 2004Prime Minister Tony Blair has secretly agreed to let the United States station interceptor missiles on British soil for the so-called "Son of Star Wars" defence system, according to a newspaper report Sunday. Small Rockets Seen As Terror Risk 
Tokyo (UPI) Oct 15, 2004Reflecting Japanese jitters over terrorism, a defense ministry official has warned that a small privately developed rocket could be used for a terrorist attack. The 5-foot-long CAMUI-type rocket was developed by the Hokkaido Aerospace Science and Technology Incubation Center, based in Sapporo. It is able to travel 3,000 feet into the air and may soon be made commercially available. Key Putin Aide Laments 'Climate Of Fear' In Russia 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 14, 2004A top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday of a new "climate of fear" arising out of double standards on the part of key policymakers. |
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