Russia, China and India contain the most areas where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects.
* Chernobyl, Ukraine — The fallout from the world’s worst nuclear power accident continues to accumulate, affecting as many as 5.5 million people and leading to a sharp rise in thyroid cancer. The [...]

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) — A recent report from the Washington-based Cato Institute says the United States could be dragged into war with China because of its alliance with Taiwan.
A Cato policy analysis report titled “Taiwan’s Defense Budget: How Taipei’s Free Riding Risks War” released Thursday says Taiwan’s reliance on the United States for military [...]

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Taking place hard on the heels of war games among China, Russia and Central Asian states, the four-nation exercise revealed a side of the region supposedly made extinct by growing economic and diplomatic integration: Asia has embarked upon a new arms race. And with China, Russia, Japan and India all feeling their strength, the region’s [...]

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Some analysts suggest that Iran has a different strategy. Gary Sick, formerly with the National Security Council and now Executive Director of the Gulf/2000 Project, puts it thus:
Iran is going to enrich uranium and have an infrastructure that will put it within reach — which could be several years — of having a nuclear weapon. [...]

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Syria Might Be Seeking Nuclear Weapons Technology Through North …
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“I’ve noticed more and more people [in the intelligence community] talking about people being sent over [from North Korea to Syria],” one high-ranking …
Analysis: N. Korea’s past threats to spread nuke technology Ha’aretz
US Says Concerns About North Korean Proliferation Remain Voice [...]

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The New Zealand secret service has suggested the Chinese government was behind attacks on the country’s networks.
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Big changes are afoot in Russia, a country intent on reclaiming its place on the world stage. Passport asked Dmitri Trenin, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment’s Moscow Center (Carnegie is FP’s parent organization) and the author of Getting Russia Right, to weigh in on what Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cabinet reshuffle means for [...]

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Foreign spies in Russia have been handed an unexpected gift by officials in the town of Sarov who accidentally posted details of a new top secret submarine on the local administration’s website.
The embarrassing leak followed what was supposed to be a confidential meeting between the commander of the secret submarine and officials in the closed [...]

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Stanley Kubrick should have lived to see this day. Only the director of the nuclear war satire “Dr. Strangelove” could do full justice to the fact that, long after the demise of the Soviet Union, a Russian leader would return to the bombast and bluster of the Cold War.
Two announcements from the Kremlin yesterday [...]

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The Continent is a front line in the war on terror, whether its people know it or not.
To return from the United States to Europe is to travel from a country that thinks it is on the front line of the struggle against jihadist terrorism but is not, to a continent that is on the [...]

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