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US To Conduct Missile Defense Test Off Hawaii Washington (AFP) Jun 21, 2006 
A US warship prepared to shoot down a mock warhead of a medium-range missile over the Pacific Wednesday in the latest of a series of tests of a sea-based missile defense system, a spokesman said. It comes amid tensions over North Korean preparations to launch a long-range missile, but a spokesman for the US Missile Defense Agency said the missile defense test had been planned for months. "It has nothing to do with North Korea or anything else," said Rick Lehner, the agency's spokesman.
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Brown Backs Britain Keeping Its Nuclear Deterrent
London (AFP) Jun 22, 2006Britain's finance minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, made it ringingly clear Wednesday that the country will remain a nuclear power if,as expecred, he becomes the next prime minister. In a speech to the movers and shakers in London's City financial district, Brown let it be known that he was in favour of spending billions of pounds on a new generation of weapons to keep Britain in the global nuclear club. Patriot GEM Has Second Test Flight Success 
Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2006Raytheon announced Monday that its Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile, or GEM, had successfully carried out its second consecutive successful test flight. A GEM-T missile destroyed a surrogate cruise missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., Raytheon said. Successful Meteor Missile Firings With Gripen Completed 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jun 22, 2006An important stage in the Meteor missile programme was reached today when the second Air Launched Demonstration (ALD) firing took place. This successfully continued the first Meteor firing campaign with a Gripen fighter aircraft at the FMV Vidsel test range in northern Sweden. |
North Korea Again Hails 1998 Missile Launch
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 21, 2006North Korean media hailed Wednesday for the second time this week the 1998 launch of a missile over Japan, stoking concern that Pyongyang plans a new long-range launch. State radio, in a daily commentary monitored by Tokyo-based service Radiopress, praised the firing of the Taepodong-1 missile into the Pacific Ocean eight years ago as a feat of science. North Korea Must Keep Promise Not To Test Missile Says Bush 
Vienna (AFP) Jun 21, 2006President Bush warned North Korea on Wednesday to honour pledges not to test a long-range missile, without spelling out the consequences, as Pyongyang offered talks with Washington on its plans. NKorean Missile Would Pull Japan Closer To US 
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 21, 2006Any North Korean missile launch would push Japan even closer to the United States as the officially pacifist nation tries to protect itself against self-declared nuclear power Pyongyang, analysts said. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said Japan and the United States would take "severe action" if the communist North goes ahead with reported plans to fire a Taepodong-2 missile. |
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US Army Awards Contract To Raytheon For Excalibur Production
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 22, 2006The U.S. Army awarded Raytheon Company a $42.7 million contract for fiscal year 2006 production of tactical Excalibur projectiles and related test articles and services. Excalibur - a cooperative effort between Raytheon Missile Systems and BAE Systems Bofors of Sweden - is an artillery projectile that uses satellite guidance to provide precision accuracy at extended ranges for all current and future 155 mm howitzers. Weapons Experts Warn US Lawmakers On Indian Nuclear Deal 
Washington (AFP) Jun 21, 2006Arms experts cautioned US lawmakers Tuesday against backing a civilian nuclear deal with India that they said violated a global atomic agreement and dampened efforts to reign in nuclear renegades Iran and North Korea. Stop The World 
Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2006The United States is a greater threat to global stability than Iran or China? Clearly a preposterous suggestion, you would say. Well, think again because that's how our European allies have sized up the current state of geopolitical play. |
World Joins US In Seeking Prompt Iran Answer
Washington (AFP) Jun 21, 2006World powers joined US President George W. Bush on Wednesday in pressing Iran to respond within weeks rather than months as proposed by Tehran to a call to end its controversial nuclear research. The new round of diplomatic jostling came after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said for the first time Wednesday that Tehran would respond to the international plan on the nuclear row within two months. A Better Week For US Forces In Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2006War abounds in ironies. This past week saw U.S. military fatalities in Iraq pass another milestone figure - 2,500. Yet it was also a week that saw U.S. soldiers dying in that country at a lower rate than at almost any previous time this year. US Officers Say Rejected Amnesty Has Merit 
Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2006Repulsed and angered by the death and mutilation of two U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the Senate has overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution denouncing the idea of an Iraqi government amnesty for insurgents. But U.S. officers in Iraq - driven less by politics than by practicality - say an amnesty program, if implemented correctly, has merit. |
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