It’s been 50 years since a tiny, bleeping orb named Sputnik triggered a decades-long competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to rule the heavens. But if you thought the space race was over, think again. In this week’s List, FP looks at the five hottest contests for space dominance.
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One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other.
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Europe’s attempt to create its own satellite navigation system, known as Galileo, has fallen on hard times. Over the past year, the European Union (EU) has been forced to abandon the idea of managing Galileo as a public-private partnership, in the process incurring a nearly €2.5 billion ($3.5 billion) debt. In addition, one-time partners China [...]

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Sputnik Documentary Provides Glimpses into Cold War Fears
Wired News - 12 hours ago
A 1958 Gallup Poll (pdf) Hoffman dug up found that “60% of Americans thought that nuclear war was imminent and that 50% of the American population would …
Secrets of 1957 Sputnik Launch Revealed ABC News
Sputnik 50 years later: Why was it first, what [...]

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Poll: Most Israelis support using nukes
Jerusalem Post, Israel - 10 hours ago
… to prevent a war would be justified, while 35% believed the weapons could be justifiably used during a war. In addition, the survey found that Israel …
Survey: 72 percent of Israelis support using nuclear weapons Ha’aretz
Poll: Most Israelis support using nukes Jerusalem Post
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Iran threatens to attack 170 US targets
Jerusalem Post, Israel - 1 hour ago
COM STAFF Iran threatened Monday to attack some 170 American targets in the Middle East and around the world if it is attacked by Israel or the US, …
Israel warns of growing threat from Iranian UAVs Flight International
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The Bear in the Air
Russia is again flexing its aviation muscles, resuming Cold War-like global operations in ways that create new complications for the United States Air Force.
On Aug. 17, Russian bombers flying long-range missions fanned out from the North Pole over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, inaugurating what Russian President Vladimir V. Putin called [...]

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It was called the American Hiroshima.
Within 24 hours of eight American cities suffering the effects of radiation and blast damage in June of 2010, Islamic terrorists claimed responsibility. Immediately middle-east and far-east Muslim news outlets praised the attacks as a retribution from Allah.
Those are the widely known facts. But my research, as this paper will [...]

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Putin Signals Perpetual Power With Transition to Prime Minister
Bloomberg - 53 minutes ago
… chilled as Putin reasserted Russia’s military might by restarting long-range bomber patrols and upgrading Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missiles, …
Putin Says He May Become Premier After Term Ends (Update3) Bloomberg
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Russian bombers trained off Alaska coast
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 25 minutes ago
But in mid-September, British and Norwegian jets intercepted Russian military aircraft after they breached NATO airspace close to the UK and Finland. …
Russia steps up bomber exercises near Alaska and Canada International Herald Tribune
Analysis: Cold War over North Pole? United Press International
The ice wars cometh [...]

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