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Long discounted by arms control critics, traditional nonproliferation efforts now are undergoing urgent review and reconsideration even by their supporters. Why? In large part, because the current crop of nonproliferation understandings are ill-suited to check the spread of emerging long-range missile, biological, and nuclear technologies.
Attempts to develop a legally binding inspections protocol [...]

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This list is an estimate of the countries that will be capable of building nuclear weapons by 2015. Most of these countries probably will not actually build nuclear weapons by 2015, but they will be in position to rapidly build (within a year or two) these weapons if the need arises. This build-up will certainly [...]

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Feb., 2005
U.S. intelligence officials have said Pakistan will be a failed state by 2015, the Times of India reported Sunday.
An assessment report compiled by the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies forecasts a Yugoslavia-like fate for Pakistan, thanks to civil war, Talibanization and a struggle for control of nuclear weapons.
Pakistan will not recover easily from [...]

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JERUSALEM – Hezbollah, with the help of Iran, has started building underground war bunkers in Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to senior Lebanese officials.
During its 34-day confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel destroyed scores of complex Hezbollah bunkers that snaked along the Lebanese [...]

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LONDON, August 30 (IranMania) - In a nuclear programme that began before the Islamic revolution, Iran has succeeded in enriching uranium to levels required to produce atomic fuel but has still yet to complete its first reactor, AFP reported.

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If, in the face of repeated threats and provocation by an aggressive dictatorship, you refuse to go to war, the war will eventually come to you.
That’s the meaning of Iran’s de facto declaration of war against Israel–which is, ultimately, a new war Iran is waging against the US. Iran is so [...]

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An Australian MP has drawn parallels between Nazi Germany and the Chinese Communist regime following the release of an independent report into the killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their bodily organs.

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One-third of China’s vast landmass is suffering from acid rain caused by rapid industrial growth and the failure of local governments to enforce environmental standards for fear of hurting business, a new report shows.
China’s factories last year spewed out 25.5 million tons of sulfur dioxide - the chemical that causes acid rain [...]

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The Korea Earthquake Research Center recently was put on 24-hour watch as fears grew about a possible test. The Defense Ministry sent soldiers to scrutinize the center’s wall of video screens, which display skittering graphs of data from some 90 seismic stations across South Korea. Alert systems have been installed to link [...]

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Taipei (AsiaNews/SCMP) – Mainland China will be able to attack Taiwan in about two years and if it does, it could pound the island with missiles in just seven minutes, Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said yesterday.
In its 2005 defence white paper, the ministry wrote that China would rely on a strategy of intimidation [...]

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An increasing number of Chinese jets and frigates have trespassed into Taiwanese territorial waters, a defense report said yesterday, with the military earmarking funds to purchase F-16 fighter jets from the U.S.
The 2006 National Defense Report released yesterday said large numbers of Chinese military aircraft and frigates have been detected crossing into [...]

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But MADness, ironically, ends at a place which by Western standards is truly deranged – Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s repeated rants to destroy Israel and the West are almost clichés now, having been replayed so often that the sheer audacity and horror of the threat has been diluted. Following the ideology of the [...]

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Defense analysts agree that the next war will likely involve unconventional weapons. For the weak of heart, that euphemism means that our enemies will attack us with chemical, biological and, if they possess them, nuclear bombs, designed to kill hundreds of thousands if not millions at once and in the sickening hours [...]

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If the international community fails to end Iran’s nuclear weapon program, it will be left to Israel to deal with the menace, with all its catastrophic potential.
For Israel the point of no return (the point at which Tehran masters the technology to produce nuclear weapons) looms even closer. Israeli intelligence circles estimate [...]

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