Even a limited nuclear exchange could trigger a climate catastrophe.
Today’s combination of nuclear proliferation, political instability, and urban demographics poses a renewed threat of nuclear winter. The sunlight-blocking effect of smoke and soot from even a limited nuclear war could trigger a climate catastrophe. The atomic explosion shown here occurred at the Nevada Test Site [...]

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Perhaps there is no better quote to illustrate the unique place of Russia in the investment world than this simple comment from the Financial Times: “Gazprom [the giant Russian oil and gas company] does not comprehend why its thinly veiled threats and bullying are not, as at home, seen as a normal negotiating tactic.”
What do [...]

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Two of Canada’s leading nuclear disarmament crusaders are accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of fuelling a new nuclear arms race for bragging yesterday about the prowess of his country’s powerful new intercontinental missile.
Ernie Reghr, the senior policy adviser of Project Ploughshares, called Mr. Putin’s decision to extol the virtues of Russia’s Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile [...]

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — International nuclear investigators have confirmed that Iran is beginning to install equipment in the large underground chamber in Natanz, the center where Iranian officials have said they will move to industrial-scale enrichment of uranium, according to foreign diplomats and American officials.
Iran said last year that it planned to install 3,000 centrifuges [...]

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There is a gaping hole in the international position on Iran, and Gambia, of all countries, has pointed it out. After the presidents of the two countries exchanged visits, Gambia is openly wondering why the world is upset about Iran building a bomb. The Gambians are asking, so long as other countries are allowed to [...]

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PARIS: When President Jacques Chirac said this week that he was not overly worried if Iran had a nuclear weapon or two, he stated clearly what some arms control experts have been saying for some time: that the world may have to learn live with a nuclear Iran.
Chirac quickly retracted his remarks, and the Élysée [...]

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The Bush administration has suspended plans to develop space ventures with China, including joint exploration of the moon, in reaction to Beijing’s Jan. 11 test of an anti-satellite weapon that left orbiting debris threatening U.S. and foreign satellites.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jason Sharp said the weapon test undermined an [...]

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As worldwide attention focuses on China’s first successful anti-satellite missile test, U.S. officials are questioning why some Chinese spacecraft are in orbits that bring them close to key U.S. satellites, according to military sources.
The big question is the scale and progress of the Chinese anti-satellite program, including whether the Chinese spacecraft are benign or time [...]

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How far are the Gulf States from a nuclear race in the region? This is a legitimate question given the decision by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States in December 2006 to establish, for the first time, a nuclear research program.
Up to this point, the GCC States had never seriously considered the use [...]

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Syria conducted a successful test of the Scud D missile, a long range
missile capable of hitting any point in Israel.
In the past Syria tried testing the missile and failed. The missile fell
apart in mid-flight over Turkish airspace.
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Iran is working to increase the strike range of its air force to deliver “more powerful strategic weapons systems,” including through cooperation with Syria, Jane’s Defence Weekly reported Thursday. Citing Western defence sources, the Jane’s military information group publication also said Tehran was seeking ways of delivering nuclear payloads other than by missiles.
The weekly said [...]

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