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Russia Must Remain A Major Nuclear Power Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 29, 2006 
An all-out war or armed conflict between the great powers no longer seems possible. However, the five official nuclear powers are in no hurry to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in their policy, a fact attested to by the US's new nuclear doctrine, loose rules of engagement for using nuclear weapons in the event of a crisis and greater regional tensions. Russia therefore has no choice but to remain a major nuclear power in the foreseeable future. It is our opinion that, depending on the global military-political situation, by 2012 Russia's strategic nuclear forces should have: - about 600 ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles; ten to 12 SSBNs...
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Iran Must Suspend Enrichment Before Talks - Bush
Tallinn (AFP) Nov 28, 2006The United States supports talks between the Iraqi government and its neighbours but will not talk directly to Tehran unless it suspends uranium enrichment, US President George W. Bush said on Tuesday. "Iraq is a sovereign nation which is conducting its own foreign policy," Bush said in Estonia, shortly before heading to neighbouring Latvia for a summit of NATO leaders. Space Cost Controls Urged Los Angeles (UPI) Nov 28, 2006 
The United States military is being urged to take a more deliberate pace in its acquisition of high-priced satellites and other space-based equipment that are a linchpin of the 21st Century fighting force. While the sky literally appears to be the limit when it comes to new uses for satellites, the Government Accountability Office said in a report this month that Department of Defense space programs were getting ahead of the technology that holds so much promise.Space: Paths Of Conversion 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 29, 2006Combat missiles are now widely used to launch ordinary spacecraft, and rightly so, because huge intellectual and material resources have been invested in their development and it would be wrong, both economically and morally, not to use this potential. |
Kremlin To Limit Foreigners' Access To Strategic Industries
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 29, 2006The Kremlin may limit foreigners' access to some strategic industries if parliament approves a law on foreign investment in commercial organizations of strategic significance to Russia's national security. The document was drafted in the Ministry of Industry and Energy and has been forwarded for consideration to the government. After that, it needs to be discussed in both houses of Russia's parliament and signed by the president. Aerial Combat: US Pilots Practiced Against MiGs 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 29, 2006A news conference held Thursday at the National Museum of the United States Air Force revealed a long-kept secret: thousands of U.S. military pilots gained an aerial-combat edge by practicing dogfighting against Soviet-designed MiG fighters. China's Landmark Broadcast Satellite Fails 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 28, 2006A satellite, aiming to provide a television signal to every household in China, has encountered problems with its solar panels and will not function as planned, state press reported Tuesday. China's first direct broadcasting satellite, the Sinosat II, launched on October 29 from southwest China's Sichuan province, failed to deploy a solar panel and an antenna and is unable to undertake its broadcast functions, said China News Service. |
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QinetiQ World First Flight Demo - Multiple UAV Sys
Farnborough UK (SPX) Nov 29, 2006QinetiQ has successfully completed the world's first flight demonstration of a system capable of controlling and autonomously organising multiple unmanned aircraft. The successful flight trial was conducted to support the concept of using a package of self-organising unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) under the control of an operator flying in a fast jet. Russia Scraps 145 Out Of 197 Decommissioned Nuclear Submarines 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 29, 2006Russia has dismantled 145 out of 197 decommissioned Soviet-era nuclear submarines, the head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power said Tuesday. Russia has signed cooperation agreements on the disposal of decommissioned nuclear submarines with the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, Italy and Norway. The disposal program will cost an overall $2 billion, toward which Russia had allocated $850 million as of 2005. UK MoD Wants Inventors To Design Surveillance Kit 
London (AFP) Nov 28, 2006Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is challenging inventors to come up with a surveillance device to help soldiers on patrol in Iraq and Afghanistan, a minister told BBC radio Tuesday. Lord Paul Drayson said that many ground-breaking innovations had emerged from "garages and people working in their garden sheds". |
Russia Slams US And NATO Intentions In Europe
Moscow (AFP) Nov 28, 2006Russia was "deceived" by previous NATO enlargements and considers the expansion of a US defence system in Europe "destabilising", Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday. "We were simply deceived, they said one thing and did another," Ivanov told students during a visit to the northwest Russian city of Saint Petersburg, ITAR-TASS news agency reported. A European Spy In Al-Qaida - Part 2 
Washington (UPI) Nov 29, 2006A Muslim man who was a spy inside al-Qaida for several European intelligence services in the 1990s says he was cut loose right after the group bombed U.S. embassies in East Africa -- the very moment when its global reach and capabilities became so bloodily apparent. NATO Chief Lashes Allies Over Afghan Troop Commitments 
Riga (AFP) Nov 28, 2006NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer hit out Tuesday at alliance countries for failing to provide reinforcements in insurgency-hit Afghanistan, as world leaders gathered for a summit in Latvia. In neighbouring Estonia, US President George W. Bush also urged his NATO counterparts to step up, saying they must "accept difficult assignments" like the increasingly fraught alliance mission in south Afghanistan. |
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