For those who missed this year’s uranium and nickel boom, there is still molybdenum. Scarce, hard to substitute, and subject to new export curbs in China, the silvery metal has freak resistance to heat, cold, and corrosion. Hedge funds view it as a leveraged play on the next looming energy crunch.
Plain “moly” to mining men, [...]

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Buoyed by the successful test of a missile that can hit China, India says it can extend its nuclear range beyond Asia, but experts say it is unlikely to take such a step for fear of upsetting the West.
The launch on Thursday of the intermediate-range Agni-III missile capped New Delhi’s drive to produce a device [...]

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The specter of nuclear annihilation haunts the modern mind. With North Korea testing nukes last year, Iran apparently bent on developing a weapon and Pakistan in possession of a dozen bombs already, hopes have faded that the world will one day be free of the threat of nuclear weapons.
In March, the Council on Foreign Relations [...]

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Taiwan has conducted a military drill simulating an attack from China on the capital city Taipei, on the eve of the start of a series of major war games, National Security Council officials said yesterday.
The 20-hour exercise held Saturday and yesterday was a test of the crisis-management ability of top officials, including Premier Su Tseng-chang, [...]

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For hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Israelis, agonizing death by nerve-gas-induced asphyxiation lies just minutes away.
Inside hardened concrete structures, awaiting the signal from Damascus, hundreds of long-range missiles sit on their launchers, many tipped with warheads containing some of the most lethal substances known to man.
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The Agni-III missile failed its first flight test last July, but this one seems to have gone off very well. The missile, which reportedly can carry a 300-kiloton nuclear warhead, was not tested at its full range of more than 3,000 km (1,900 miles) on this occasion, but that is the number that gets people’s [...]

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SEVERODVINSK. April 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Eight Project 955 Borei strategic nuclear submarines will have been assigned to the Russian Navy by 2017, Deputy Defense Minister and armaments chief, General of the Army Alexei Moskovsky said.
“Under the armaments program, seven Project Borei nuclear missile submarines are to be built by 2015 and another by 2017,” [...]

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BERLIN - A German army instructor ordered a soldier to envision himself in New York City facing hostile blacks while firing his machine gun, a video that aired Saturday on national television showed.
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SEVERODVINSK. April 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia will test launch one more Bulava sea-based ballistic missile in June 2007, the Russian Navy Commander, Admiral of the Fleet Vladimir Masorin, told Interfax-AVN.
“Bulava testing will be continued. The missile will be test launched next from the Dmitry Donskoy strategic submarine [Project 941] from a submerged position in [...]

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Sunday it is seeking bids to build two more nuclear power plants even as the launch of its first plant is stalled amid a bitter dispute with Russia over its funding.
Ahmad Fayyazbakhsh, the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in charge of power plants, told reporters the plants [...]

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Look behind the curtain of virtually every major problem in the Middle East, and you will find Iran: killings in Iraq; arms and money for Hezbollah’s assaults on Israel and Hezbollah’s attempts to usurp the elected government of Lebanon; support of Syria as the hotelier of the region’s major terrorist groups; support and training of [...]

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An intelligence source said: “There have been several signs that the Iranian regime has been working to expand its influence in the Middle East and beyond over the past six months, much to the displeasure of Sunni militants and Al-Qaeda activists.
“The main driver is Iran’s funding of an international campaign to convince Sunnis to [...]

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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AP) - The new commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said Sunday that tensions over Taiwan are a factor in the military buildup of Guam but that the U.S. is working hard to ensure hostilities don’t erupt.
Adm. Timothy Keating spoke during a weekend visit to Guam, a U.S. territory [...]

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Russia has the second largest nuclear submarine fleet in the world after the United States.
“Russia’s attack submarines fulfil the function of preventing the United States’s freedom of action at sea,” said Ivan Safranchuk, head of the World Security Institute’s Moscow office.
“The development of this submarine fleet illustrates the intentions of Russia to preserve its position [...]

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