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China has test launched a DF-31 long-range ballistic missile, according to a report by the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. The missile was said to have been launched from the Wuzhai launch site on Monday night.
The DF-31 has been under development since the 1980s and Monday’s flight test appears to be the sixth [...]

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The planned US anti-missile shield is a threat to global security as it could lead to another arms race, Russia’s army chief, General Yuri Baluyevski, said in an article published in a Polish newspaper yesterday. “Deploying the large-scale US anti-missile shield threatens to spark a new arms race,” Baluyevski said in the [...]

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WASHINGTON—While the world was concentrating on Iran’s nuclear drama, some Latin American nations were going nuclear too. Argentina and Brazil have relaunched their nuclear energy programs big time and in Chile, despite President Michelle Bachelet’s initial skepticism, officials are beginning to consider that option.
In the case of Brazil and Argentina, it’s all [...]

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A potential economic alliance with Venezuela could foment a crisis for Latin American democracy.
WHILE THE Middle East smolders, another crisis is brewing to our south. Slow economic growth, worsening inequality, lack of social services and weak legal systems have eroded confidence in elected governments. A 2004 United Nations Development Program poll indicates [...]

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Ten years ago, on the eve of the Taiwan’s first direct presidential election, China test-fired several missiles into waters off the coast of Taiwan to intimidate its voters. Since then, Beijing has continued increasing its military pressure on Taiwan. Currently, it has deployed more than 800 missiles aimed at the island-nation. [...]

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Iran may soon have nuclear weapons. Official intelligence estimates put an Iranian bomb five-to-ten years away. Yet some experts think one-to-four years is a more realistic figure. Regardless of whether or when Iran announces that it has fabricated nuclear weapons, prudence may soon dictate that Iran’s neighbors treat it as a de [...]

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June 27th 2006, 1:22 pm [PST] - In June 2006, the US Congress was embroiled in the solemn business of debating whether they should protect the American flag from the Satanic legions wanting to set fire to it. While the American public was riveted by this momentous rhetorical contest, the United States House of [...]

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Now that Iran has scorned diplomatic and economic overtures and the U.N. Security Council’s demand that it halt nuclear fuel-cycle activity, has the time come to apply force to stem its suspect weapons program? True, U.N. sanctions may be in the offing. But proposed penalties are unlikely to move the revolutionary regime. [...]

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Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said Tuesday that Japan needs to consider developing nuclear weapons, taking into account the presence of nearby nuclear states and the uncertain future of the alliance with the United States.

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In Iraq, the world’s only superpower finds itself mired in a conflict that it cannot win. History’s mightiest military has been unable to defeat an enemy force of perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 insurgents equipped with post-World war II vintage assault rifles and anti-tank weapons.
In Gaza and southern Lebanon, the Middle East’s mightiest [...]

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Intelligence services, police stunned by sweep of schools, mosques in wake of foiled bomb plot
No matter how you slice it, London is daily looking more like “Londonistan.” Or perhaps more precisely, as Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist squad puts it, Britain has become al-Qaida’s European headquarters “housing a secret army [...]

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BEIJING — Hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby smelter, state media and local officials said Wednesday.
The poisonings in two villages in poverty-stricken Gansu province added to a string of recent pollution disasters in China that have [...]

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Just so, the British governments of the 1930s thought they were acting both ethically and in the best interest of their people. While there were a few pro-Nazis and anti-Semites in Britain (mostly in the upper classes), Chamberlain and most of his government were neither.
They did think Germany had been unfairly dealt [...]

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LAST WEEK Wang Guangya, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, made a formal statement on Darfur that calls into question China’s claim to be treated as a responsible international player. Mr. Wang began by saying that China wants U.N. peacekeepers to be deployed in Darfur, calling this a “good idea and realistic [...]

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These critics of current conflicts, however, rarely refer to the example of World war II—surely one of the most outrageously disproportional conflicts in all human history. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and killed 3,000 Americans, virtually all of them military personnel; in the US response, some 3 million Japanese lost their lives, [...]

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