In total, we estimate that the United States deploys and stores nearly 10,000 nuclear weapons at 18 facilities in 12 states and six European countries (see below). The Pentagon developed this extensive network of installations over the past six decades in order to ensure the survivability of its nuclear arsenal. Post-Cold war base closures and [...]

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WASHINGTON - November 9 - Nuclear weapons experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) today released an interactive three-dimensional map using Google Earth photographic satellite technology to track the nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads still in the U.S. arsenal, 15 years after the end of the Cold War.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A federal judge Thursday ordered the detention of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight others in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed 85 people, the judge’s office said.
A special prosecutor sought the order, alleging that the worst terrorist attack on Argentine soil was [...]

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The Muslim “street” in the Middle East has a saying. “First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday.” According to Brigitte Gabriel, a survivor of the Muslim terror in Lebanon, this saying means, “first we fight the Jews, then we come for the Christians.” It must be admitted, of course, that Muslims haven’t waited for Israel’s defeat [...]

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For over a decade, Russian military exports to China have constituted the most important dimension of the two countries’ security relationship. Since the two governments signed an agreement on military-technical cooperation in December 1992, China has purchased more weapons platforms and hardware-related items from Russia than from all other countries combined. During the 1990s, the [...]

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By Daniel Pipes
Has the United States ever engaged in a crusade against Islam? No, never. And, what’s more, one of the country’s earliest diplomatic documents rejects this very idea.
Exactly 210 years ago this week, toward the end of George Washington’s second presidential administration, a document was signed with the first of two Barbary Pirate states. [...]

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Signaling a change in tactics, Hamas’ military wing on Wednesday called on Muslims around the world to attack American targets after an apparent misfiring of an IDF artillery shell in the Gaza Strip.
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It is a pretty exclusive club - the one formed by heads of state who have been voted out of their countries’ highest office and then, years later, manage to stage a comeback. But Daniel Ortega has pulled it off.
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If the West fails to prevent the nuclearization of Iran, such ineptitude will likely be analyzed by future historians in the context of Europe’s failure to block the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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Relations between Russia and the United States will continue to worsen regardless of which political party is at the helm of the American legislature, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted a leading Russian expert as saying.
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HONOLULU: A man accused of working for China to produce a cruise missile that is hard to detect and intercept is facing additional charges, some of which carry a possible death sentence, federal officials said.
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