Europe should not let Russia’s threats deter it from deploying a defence against rogue states with rockets.
Mr Putin may not like the Czechs and Poles—former vassals of the old Soviet Union that are now NATO members—volunteering for new missile-defence duty. But putting ten interceptors in Poland, or Britain, or anywhere else in Europe for that [...]

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The BTC pipeline dominated by British Petroleum and American interest, has dramatically changed the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean, which is now linked , through an energy corridor, to the strategic Caspian sea basin.
Virtually unnoticed, the inauguration of the Ceyhan-Tiblisi-Baku (BTC) oil pipeline, which links the Caspian Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean took place on [...]

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(Islamabad, Pakistan-AP) February 23, 2007 - Pakistan says it has successfully test-fired a new version of its long-range ballistic missile.
The Shaheen Two was launched Friday from an undisclosed location. It has a range of 1,245 miles, giving it the capability to hit major cities in neighboring India.
In a statement, Pakistan’s military says the missile “can [...]

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Yet there is an even more urgent danger. Besides chemical and biological weapons, we are now seeing advances in the fields of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (so-called GNR technologies ) that threaten destruction even more horrific than that of atomic devices or climate change.
These technologies, often self-replicating, don’t need the massive industrial infrastructure required to [...]

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has offered to build a nuclear power plant in Namibia as Moscow seeks to break into the African nuclear market, Russia’s nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko said on Friday, Interfax news agency reported.
Kiriyenko, head of Russia’s atomic energy agency, told reporters on a visit to Namibia that Russian firms would also form [...]

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Aggressive Rhetoric From Russia Contains Echoes Of The Past
In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Russia’s last Cold Warrior, Mikhail Gorbachev, agrees.
“The last straw was when Defense Secretary Gates said America needs large armed forces to defend itself against the unpredictability of Russia and China,” Gorbachev says. “It seems that America sees us an enemy [...]

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SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 23 (Reuters) — Vice President Dick Cheney expressed concerns on Friday about China’s military buildup, and questioned whether North Korea would follow through on its commitments in a recent nuclear deal.
In a speech in Sydney, Mr. Cheney also emphasized the importance of keeping American forces in Iraq to prevent “jihadists” from gaining [...]

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Chinese delegates will have some explaining to do in Vienna later this month, when they sit down with representatives of other spacefaring nations to adopt international guidelines designed to mitigate the growing problem of man-made space debris in Earth orbit.
The document drafted by a technical subcommittee of the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of [...]

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Summary: For four decades, relations among the major nuclear powers have been shaped by their common vulnerability, a condition known as mutual assured destruction. But with the U.S. arsenal growing rapidly while Russia’s decays and China’s stays small, the era of MAD is ending — and the era of U.S. nuclear primacy has begun.
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