Nukes pursued in multiple ways By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
February 2, 2006
Iran is building nuclear weapons through both plutonium and enriched uranium as part of a secret development effort, a senior State Department official said yesterday.
“The regime in Tehran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons capability,” Robert G. Joseph, the undersecretary of state for arms [...]

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According to a classified Defense Intelligence Agency assessment, China’s nuclear forces include about 45 long-range missiles, 12 submarine-launched missiles and about 100 short-range missiles each with a single warhead.
By 2020, China’s arsenal will include up to 220 long-range missiles, up to 44 submarine-launched missiles and up to 200 short-range missiles, the DIA report [...]

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U.S. REPORT CITES INDIAN MISSILE HELP TO Iran WASHINGTON [MENL] — The United States, in wake of a nuclear cooperation agreement, has acknowledged that India continues to aid Iran’s ballistic missile program.
My Comment:
In the past India has provided help to Iran for nuclear and chemical weapons technology.
Thanks India.

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WASHINGTON - One or more Iranians witnessed North Korea’s recent missile tests, deepening U.S. concerns about growing ties between two countries with troubling nuclear capabilities, a top U.S. official said Thursday.

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Some South Korean analysts suspect that senior Chinese military leaders have welcomed–and perhaps even encouraged–North Korean threats to attack Japan, even though the bellicose statements are likely to spur a major Japanese military buildup, including, possibly, nuclear weapons development.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), according to these experts, assumes it is only a matter [...]

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China is pursuing a troubling, tricky alliance with radical, rightwing Islam, or Islamism, despite concerns about its own restive Muslim population.
In China’s view, the potential rewards of cozying up to Islamist countries and terrorist groups outweigh the risks. In forging ties to Shiite Iran, its Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hizbollah, and the Sunni Palestinian [...]

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Early Warning.
Western intelligence agencies are concerned that North Korea may have helped Iran to test-launch a sea-going Scud missile.
The short-range missile is believed to have been successfully fired from the deck of an Iranian cargo ship.

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On July 18, Zhou Shengxian, Director of China State Environmental Protection Administration, said in Beijing that soil pollution in China is very severe. It is estimated that each year there are twelve million tons of grains contaminated by heavy metals, which results in an economic loss of more than 20 billion yuan (approximately [...]

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An arsenal with real shock value
Michael Richardson
Friday, 4 August 2006
BEHIND the Israel-Lebanon crisis is an extensive but little-known trade in increasingly sophisticated missiles that have the capacity to upset stability and the balance of power in conflict-prone areas of the world. The most dangerous are much more powerful and have longer ranges than the Katuysha [...]

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Japan’s Defence Chief Fukushiro Nukaga. Photo courtesy of AFP.
by Kyoko Hasegawa
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 01, 2006
Japan’s Defense Agency, voicing “grave concern” about North Korea’s recent missile tests, called Tuesday for the quick implementation of a controversial plan to realign US military bases. In an annual white paper meant to provide guidelines to policymakers, the [...]

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http://www.sinodaily.com/2006/060806032030.24×2b5ht.html
BEIJING, Aug 6 (AFP) Aug 06, 2006
China’s sharp rise in sulphur dioxide emissions, the main component of acid rain, is ruining the nation’s croplands and threatening the food chain in rivers and lakes, experts said Sunday.
The emissions, largely caused by burning coal to sate China’s booming appetite for electricity and by vehicle exhaust, are further [...]

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The Google Earth Community - Military Snooping
Check out the Google Earth Community - Military to see what people are finding around the world on military issues.
Recently someone found a terrain model of the China-India border on a Chinese military base. Other people have found some interesting information about an underground submarine base at a Chinese [...]

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China’s Nuclear Missile Submarine Base
http://www.nukestrat.com/china/subcave.htm
The base for China’s single Xia-class ballistic missile submarine is located at Jianggezhuang approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of Qingdao on the Yellow Sea (see map). The base spans an entire bay 1.2 miles (1.9 km) across, and includes six piers, a dry dock, numerous service facilities, and an underground [...]

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The Theory Behind 1913 Intel
 
The world today is in many ways similar to the pre-1914 world of yesterday. Economic and military/power similarities abound, but it’s really about world instabilities. Increased economic and power instabilities create the conditions for a major war. 
 
Parallels between today and pre-war 1914
 
Economic Parallels:
1. Globalization and low inflation are both conditions [...]

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