Soviet Chemical Weapons Expert: Dumping Was ‘Common Practice’ – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010

Posted by Matt in February 7th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, 1990s, Baltic Sea, Bashkir, Chemical Weapons, ChemicalWeapons, Europe Radio, Expert, Free Radio, Military Weapons, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Radioactive Waste, Soviet Weapons, Tatar

A Soviet chemical weapons expert says he is nearly certain that a report claiming the Soviet military dumped chemical weapons and radioactive waste in the Baltic Sea during the 1990s is accurate, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
Soviet Chemical Weapons Expert: Dumping Was ‘Common Practice’ – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010

AFP: US to store more weapons, ammunition in Israel: official

Posted by Matt in January 11th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Israel, 1990s, Allied Countries, Armored Vehicles, Artillery Ammunition, Gulf States, Israel, Military Stores, Military Weapons, Missiles, Precaution, South-Korea, Stockpile

The stockpile in Israel, which dates back to the 1990s, includes missiles, armored vehicles and artillery ammunition. The US military stores weapons in allied countries, including Israel, Gulf states and South Korea, as a precaution for possible operations.
AFP: US to store more weapons, ammunition in Israel: official

North Korea Started Uranium Program in 1990s, South Says – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Koreas, Nuclear, 1990s, Fears, Foreign Minister Said Wednesday, Korea South, Korean Nuclear Program, North-Korea, Nuclear Bomb, Nytimes, Plutonium Program, Uranium Enrichment Program

The North Korean nuclear program that we all think about is the plutonium program. Now we get new information about a uranium program that started in 1996 or possibly earlier.
North Korea apparently began pursuing a uranium enrichment program in 1996 at the latest, the South Korean foreign minister said Wednesday, bolstering fears that the North’s [...]

Pakistani scientist depicts more advanced nuclear program in North Korea – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in December 28th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Koreas, Nuclear, Pakistan, 1990s, Atomic Bomb, Bomb Program, North-Korea, Nuclear Program, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, pyongyang, Scientist, Uranium Enrichment, Washingtonpost

North Korea has constructed a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment, according to a previously unpublicized account by the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb program, a development that indicates Pyongyang opened a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s.
Pakistani scientist depicts more advanced nuclear program in North [...]

China’s strategic alliance with Iran is off most radar screens

Posted by Matt in December 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Favorites, Iran, 1990s, Attempts, China Views, East China, Global Community, Iran, Middle East, Political Balance, Potential Ally, Radar Screens, Strategic Alliance

Since the 1990s China has successfully been expanding its influence in the Middle Eastand Iran in particular without attracting the attention of the global community.
China views Iran as a significant potential ally in its attempts to counter-balance western power. Clearly Iran serves as a major source of oil. In addition, it is a leading geopolitical [...]

Japan Cools to America as It Awaits Obama Visit – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in November 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Japan, 1990s, Japan, Luxury Cars, Nytimes, Relationship, Semiconductors, Tokyo, Trade Wars

President Obama will arrive in Tokyo on Friday, at a time when America’s relations with Japan are at their most contentious since the trade wars of the 1990s — and back then, the fights were over luxury cars and semiconductors, not over whether the two countries should re-examine their half-century-old strategic relationship.
Japan Cools to America [...]

Global Deflation Pandemic Brews – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in July 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, 1990s, Bank Of Japan, Banking Sector, Blogged, Blowup, Collapse, Downward Spiral, Excess Capacity, Flock Browser, International Monetary Fund, Justin Lin, Lead, Pandemic, Price Declines, Real Estate Market, World Bank, World Bank Chief Economist, Wsj

Last week, World Bank Chief Economist Justin Lin warned in a speech that a surge in excess capacity world-wide could lead to a global “deflationary downward spiral.”
The Bank of Japan and the International Monetary Fund are forecasting two years of price declines in Japan, which suffered a serious bout of deflation in the 1990s because [...]

‘China assisting Pakistan’s plutonium nuke programme’

Posted by Matt in June 1st, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Nuclear, Pakistan, 1990s, China, Congressional Report, Congressional Research Service, Congressional Research Service Crs, Lawmakers, Nuclear Weapons, Nuke, Pakistan, plutonium, Warheads

China is providing assistance to Pakistan in developing its plutonium-based nuclear weapons programme, a Congressional report has
told US lawmakers.
Besides the conventional uranium-based nuclear weapons, said Pakistan has also pursued plutonium-based warheads since the 1990s and continues to produce plutonium for weapons, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) said in latest its report on the country’s [...]

How much will the financial crisis hurt America’s economic potential?

Posted by Matt in May 14th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, U.S., 1990s, Congressional Budget Office, Economic Outlook, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Labour Supply, Map, Next Decade, Pace, Population Ages, Productivity, Wall Street

Unfortunately, the outlook for America’s potential growth rate was darkening long before the financial crisis hit. The IT-induced productivity revolution, which sent potential output soaring at the end of the 1990s, has waned. More important, America’s labour supply is growing more slowly as the population ages, the share of women working has levelled off and [...]