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Military Cooperation a Hallmark of Sino-Russian Relations
While the Pentagon views China as a future military threat, Russia’s Defense Ministry seems happy to have China as a neighbor. The Russian government does not appear to be overly concerned with the advancement of Chinese troops into the Far East, and for good reason the [...]

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Yemen plans to produce electricity using nuclear energy, according to state President ‘Ali ‘Abdullah ‘Salih, the Emirati daily Al-Khalij reports.
“We will produce electricity using nuclear energy, in cooperation with the United States and Canada,” ‘Salih said during a Ramadan meal.

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Some of the anger toward Bush could be blamed on the war in Iraq, which has been unpopular in Australia. But the contrast in treatment between the American and Chinese presidents had a deeper source. For most of the postwar period, Australians had embraced the U.S. and viewed China warily. Some politicians [...]

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AMERICAN spy satellites have detected unusual activity at a suspected North Korean nuclear test site, suggesting that Pyongyang is preparing to carry out its threat to explode an underground atomic device.
A US official said: “We have seen some activity in the area — personnel, vehicles, materials, things of that nature.”
The movements were [...]

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Russia continues to transition from its Cold War nuclear stockpile, further reducing its total nuclear forces in 2005 but also announcing plans for new weapon systems and upgrades of existing ones. [1] The Russian government appears to be attempting to reassert its nuclear strength after years of decline in order to underscore [...]

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Newly available information on the Chinese nuclear arsenal requires us to reassess our previous estimate of Beijing’s stockpile (see “Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2003,” November/December 2003 Bulletin). In 2005, the Defense Department published a detailed breakdown of the Chinese missile force, as part of its 2005 Annual Report on the Military Power of [...]

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Chinese scholar analyzes the reasons and results of Pyongyang’s threat.
Since the DPRK possesses plutonium, it has become more and more a pragmatic issue for it to conduct nuclear weapon tests. Whether the DPRK will conduct nuclear tests, it will apparently proceed from its interests and will weigh the advantages and disadvantages and [...]

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Israel’s national infrastructure minister said on Tuesday that war with Hizbullah might restart in a few months, and called for an enhancement of the Israeli Army’s capacities.
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer told Israeli public radio that the deployment of the Lebanese Army along the border with Israel “will not ensure safety for Israel” and [...]

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WASHINGTON Some critics in Japan have called Japan’s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, a “hawkish nationalist.” In fact, he – like the nearly 80 percent of Japanese also born after the war – has merely been shaped by democracy.

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The rest of the world may not have noticed, but Russia’s president has won the Chechen war. He did not start it, but he prosecuted it with the full might of Russia’s military. The conflict was as brutal as any Europe has known in the last century. Grozny was bombed flat, along [...]

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