Iran announced a breakthrough in its nuclear program that could bring it the bomb in a year.
Iranian media on Sunday quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying the country is running more than 3,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, with additional units being added each week.
Experts believe that such a number of centrifuges could provide enough fissile [...]

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THOSE AWARE of history should be reminded of something by events in Lebanon. In 1936, at an early stage of a different international conflict, a fascist uprising in Spain took place against the elected government there. Western democracies and the League of Nations (the equivalent of the UN today) stayed neutral as Germany and Italy [...]

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The Second Lebanon war provided Israel with a unique opportunity to study its own weaknesses and resolve problems, ahead of a potentially more far-reaching confrontation caused by a military strike on Iran, a leading counter-terrorism expert told Ynetnews.
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For those who hold well-worn copies of Dr Strangelove in our video libraries, then Russia’s announcement this week that it plans long-range bomber exercises in the arctic will remind us of how once Alaska’s geography served the United States during the Cold War. Russian bombers will test this security line in their upcoming drills, and [...]

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MOSCOW: Russian long-range bombers began a two-day exercise Monday over the Arctic that will include firing cruise missiles, an Air Force spokesman said, according to the Interfax news agency.
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China, North Korea and Russia are just over the horizon, but the newest defense crisis for Japan is emerging from within.
Planners are paid to worry about foreign military capabilities; so Japanese and U.S. officials are closely monitoring advanced weapons development in North Korea and China. Even Russia is a concern because of its role as [...]

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China is starting to ramp up its scramjet propulsion work—an initiative that will benefit high-speed missile programs while also helping the country to develop advanced aerospace materials, greater computational capabilities and a cadre of young engineers who have matured as a result of cutting-edge engine and aerodynamic challenges.
Building on its ramjet experience, China is embracing [...]

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The Russian space agency announced a plan to send a man to the moon by 2025, to establish a permanent base there a few years later, and possibly even send a man to Mars by 2035, in an aggressive plan reminiscent of the 1960s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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After a stormy break with the U.S., European leaders are forging a new Atlantic alliance.
Now the tables have turned again. From Iberia to the Russian border, European governments are rebuilding transatlantic bridges. Remarkably, the continent’s political elites are embracing pro-Americanism at a time when people on the street are as anti-American as they’ve been since [...]

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US President George W. Bush is so preoccupied with Iraq he is neglecting Asia and allowing China to take a greater leadership role, a former senior US official said in remarks published Monday.
“In every measure, China is making real hay right throughout Asia,” Richard Armitage, Bush’s former deputy secretary of state told The Australian [...]

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In the past year, a mysterious disease ravaged (BusinessWeek) China’s pig population, with a death toll that could be as high as a million pigs, causing a sharp rise in pork prices. Chinese officials have identified the illness as blue-ear pig disease, a porcine respiratory and reproductive ailment. Although the disease is not known to [...]

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American diplomats claim to have made a break-through pact with North Korea to shut down its nuclear weapons program. Questions remain, however, about when this might happen, and some critics worry that the U.S. is giving too much in return. By David E. Sanger more…

Kim Jong Il Basks in the Sunshine: North Korea Comes in [...]

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With US law not capable of capturing terrorists without indisputable evidence of intention to commit a terrorist act, FSM Contributing Editor Dr. Walid Phares, in this fascinating essay, explains what we can learn to stop the next unarmed Mohammed Atta’s deadly plans.
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Ahmed Mohamed is an engineering graduate student and teaching assistant at the Tampa-based University. [...]

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