Defense analysts for the British intelligence service MI6 believe China is preparing for the “eventuality of a nuclear war.” The conclusion follows evidence that Beijing has built secretly a major naval base deep inside caverns which even sophisticated satellites cannot penetrate, says a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
In an unusual development, the analysts [...]

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Pakistan’s military on Monday carried out a training launch of a long-range nuclear-capable missile which can hit targets deep in rival India, the second such test in three days, the military said. The Shaheen II, or Hatf VI, missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,280 miles) was launched from an undisclosed location by the [...]

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Indecision is the path to war. The world is about to repeat errors that led to WWII: talking peace while a dictator prepares for war.
 
Iran’s President again showed his contempt for the UN by announcing Iran is installing 6,000 more centrifuges that spin at thousands of revolutions per minute. Ahmadinejad fails to say if they [...]

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Modern-day scientific Magellans and Columbus’s, exploring the uncharted seas at the fringes of the Periodic Table of the Elements, have landed on one long-sought island - the fabled Island of Stability, home of a new genre of superheavy chemical elements sought for more than three decades.
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At 1913 Intel we’re monitoring how the world is slowly positioning itself for war. Those that want to see a more multi-polar world with forces balancing (read - opposing) the United States are simply moving us along a little faster toward a major war. This was one of the key requirements to start World war I: [...]

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After 2012-2015, the U.S. will be able to annihilate Russian strategic nuclear forces by a non-nuclear preemptive strike, said Konstantin Sivkov, the first vice president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems.
“I declare that the likelihood of a military threat is great as never before now,” Sivkov told Interfax on Saturday.
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Israel obtained detailed photographs from inside an alleged Syrian nuclear facility prior to carrying out an air strike on September 6, ABC News reported Friday night.
An unnamed senior source in the US told the news network that the Mossad had discovered in the summer that Syria was constructing a nuclear facility and proceeded to either [...]

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Chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, Iran’s main contact with the West over Tehran’s atomic program, has resigned, the government said on Saturday.
Here are the main events since it first emerged that Iran was carrying out sensitive work that it could use to make atomic bombs, although Tehran insists its activities are peaceful:
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Russia is continuing nuclear war exercises aimed at the United States. China is making open war preparations. Iran seeks to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran’s leaders talk openly of wiping Israel out of existence. Can anyone see what all this signifies? A destructive war is on the horizon. But we refuse to take the danger seriously. [...]

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Vladimir Putin signalled the return of the arms race yesterday when he boasted of developing new nuclear weapons and warned the United States not to ignore Russia’s objections to a missile defence shield in Europe.
The Russian President announced a “grandiose plan” to restore Russia’s armed forces, which he appeared to link to the US invasion [...]

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Syria has begun dismantling the remains of a site Israel bombed Sept. 6 in what may be an attempt to prevent the location from coming under international scrutiny, said U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the aftermath of the attack.
Based on overhead photography, the officials say the site in Syria’s eastern desert near the Euphrates [...]

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Russia’s already rapid rearmament would be stepped up even further, Mr Putin promised. Ambitious plans to bolster the country’s nuclear arsenal — as well as its conventional military hardware — were well underway.
They include new missile systems, modernised nuclear bombers and submarines. “We have plans that are not only great, but grandiose,” he boasted.
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Apparently there was a translation error when a Syrian diplomat admitted that Israel had bombed a Syrian nuclear facility. Oops!
Taking creative license with the words of a Syrian diplomat, a real-world U.N. interpreter startled nervous Middle East diplomats on Tuesday by claiming that Israel had targeted a Syrian nuclear facility last month. The translation later [...]

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“We will develop missile technology including completely new strategic (nuclear) complexes, completely new.” Putin said in an annual televised question-and-answer session with Russian citizens. “Work is continuing and continuing successfully.”
“We have plans that are not only big, but grandiose, they are fully realistic. Our armed forces will be more compact but more effective and better [...]

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In its first admission by a state official, Syria’s ambassador to the UN confirmed that an air raid carried out by Israeli fighter jets deep in Syrian territory on September 6 was, indeed, an attack on a Syrian nuclear facility, Israel Radio reported Wednesday morning.
The Syrian envoy disclosed the nature of the target during a [...]

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has offered qualified support for Iran’s nuclear programme on a visit to Tehran.
Mr Putin told journalists that “peaceful nuclear activities must be allowed” and cautioned against using force to resolve the dispute over Iran.
But he was evasive when asked whether the Bushehr nuclear plant Russia is building would be finished on [...]

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The Bush administration has maintained rather a brave face on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s unexpected U-turn over the Indo-US nuclear deal, saying it’s still “hopeful”.
But Indo-US experts and those closely involved in galvanising support for the agreement here say it could mean a loss of credibility for a country that’s positioning itself as an [...]

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The Bush administration has decided to more than double the number of nuclear warheads undergoing an expensive upgrade for potential future deployment on the Navy’s 14 ballistic missile submarines, according to answers provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration in response to questions from the Federation of American Scientists.
The decision preempts a debate in Congress [...]

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Last week, the Jasons, a group of distinguished scientists who advise the Department of Defense, released the unclassified summary of their review of the Reliable Replacement Warhead, or RRW. Walter Pincus covered the report in the Washington Post. The summary is posted on the FAS website.
Although almost everything about nuclear weapons and their design [...]

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As Turkey pushes ahead with its nuclear energy ambitions in the face of predicted energy shortfalls and a perceived threat from Iran, critics express concerns about internal safety, security and a regional arms race.
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Intelligence reports indicate that China is retargeting more of its missiles at the U.S. Iran continues to expand its uranium-enrichment facilities; it insists that this work is aimed only at generating electricity, but few nations believe that claim. India is broadening its ability to launch nuclear weapons from land, air and sea, and Pakistan is [...]

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