This is a table providing ballistic missile information from Argentina all the way to the United States.
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China currently has the capability to strike U.S. cities with a force of approximately 20 long-range Dong Feng-5 missiles, each armed with a single 4- to 5-megaton warhead. The 20 Dong Feng-4 missiles “are almost certainly intended as a retaliatory deterrent against targets in Russia and Asia,’ according to U.S. intelligence assessments, but the missiles [...]

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Beijing can’t clean up the environment, rein in stock speculation, or police its companies. Why the mainland’s problems could keep it from becoming the next superpower.
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Why, then, is it so hard for this same government to crack down on exporters of dangerously tainted seafood, toothpaste, and medicine, despite years of warnings by local and foreign [...]

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Near the bottom of the list you will find Germany, Spain and France.

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What country in the world is most anti-American? According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project’s 47-nation survey released Wednesday it would not be one of the usual suspects - the Palestinian Authority, Pakistan, or Venezuela - but rather America’s 50-year-NATO ally, Turkey.
Consider the facts: Turkey ranked dead last in all the most important categories on [...]

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Despite its environmentally unfriendly image, nuclear power is firmly back on the world’s energy agenda thanks to the need to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. Paul Norman, Andrew Worrall and Kevin Hesketh describe how the next generation of nuclear power stations will be cleaner and more efficient than ever.
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SEOUL: North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor was ostensibly built to generate electricity but is reportedly not connected to any power lines.
Instead, experts say, it has produced enough plutonium from its fuel rods for possibly up to a dozen nuclear weapons over its 20-year history.
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Since the close of the cold war, we have been growing used to threats such as terrorism where the enemy has no state or territory. But soon we will have to get used to new strategic challenges, such as energy security, where fossil fuels will be used as weapons to achieve political ends. Energy security [...]

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A journalist-academic charts how China, armed with diplomacy, charm and foreign aid, is expanding its influence as Pax Americana steadily recedes, China now accused of the same sins it exploits.
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China looking skyward for a military advantage over U.S. space program.
Since then, China has traveled light years in its pursuit of the far reaches of space. In recent years, the Chinese National Space Administration has announced bold plans for a permanent space station, moon colony and Mars mission. The nation is rapidly rolling out a [...]

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When British prime minister Neville Chamberlain sought to appease Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler by standing aside while Hitler’s armies invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, he justified his decision in a radio address saying it was horrible that Britain should consider going to war “because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom [...]

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Russia on Sunday welcomed as “positive” North Korea’s confirmation that it had shut down its controversial nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
“The halting of the nuclear reactor in Yongbyon is a positive factor in the development of the situation around the North Korean problem,” foreign ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said in comments posted on the ministry’s website.
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The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency says it has reached a deal with Iran to allow new inspections and safeguards at key nuclear facilities.
Tehran will allow inspectors into Arak heavy water plant and agree safeguards at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant, the UN nuclear watchdog said.
The agency’s deputy director described the deal as a framework [...]

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