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Current Nuclear Threat Worse Than During Cold War
Washington (RIA Novosti) Jul 20, 2007The risks of an accidental nuclear war have increased since the Cold War as Russia's early warning capability has deteriorated, a former U.S. defense official said. William J. Perry, who is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford University, said in congressional testimony Wednesday that "the danger of nuclear war occurring by accid ... more US And Russia Facing Energy Crises 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 20, 2007New Yorkers still remember the "night of terror" provoked by a blackout on a hot summer's night in 1977, when stores were ransacked, looted and destroyed, buildings were set ablaze, and the police, for the most part, stood helpless. In the 30 years since then, electricity experts have not found a foolproof way of developing electricity systems that would rule out a repetition of such disasters. ... more NASA Holds Briefing With First Female Station Commander And Crew 
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 18, 2007The next visitors to the International Space Station will discuss their upcoming flight during a news conference at 2 p.m. CDT Monday, July 23. The Expedition 16 crew includes Commander Peggy Whitson, the first female to lead a long-duration spaceflight. The news conference from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, will be broadcast live on NASA Television with questions taken from media at oth ... more Malaysia To Receive Brand-New Russian Fighters 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 19, 2007Malaysia will receive the first 12 of its order of 18 Sukhoi Su-30-MKM Flanker fighters, the most advanced versions of the Su-27 warplane, before the year is out. The Su-30-MKM embodies the best achievements of the Russian aircraft industry and has the most advanced European avionics. The Malaysian version is based on the Su-30-MKI, earmarked for India, but features different equipment and an e ... more Russia Rejects NATO Offer As Crisis Looms Over CFE 
Moscow (AFP) Jul 19, 2007Russia rejected a NATO offer for consultations on a key European arms treaty Wednesday, but said it would continue talks with the United States on the treaty and dismissed the idea of a new Cold War. Russia last week announced it would suspend participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) arms control treaty after months of tensions over US plans to deploy an anti-missile system in ce ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2007In the near future, Europe may host two anti-ballistic missile systems, one operated exclusively by the United States and the other a joint project involving America, Russia and other European countries. According to some experts, the initiatives advanced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who proposed joint use of the Gabala radar in Azerbaijan and a radar in southern Russia, have not convinc ... more Russia Has Everything To Win By Freezing Treaty 
Brussels (AFP) Jul 17, 2007Russia has much to win by suspending, or even freezing, a key Soviet-era treaty limiting troops and arms in Europe and the West has little leverage to stop it, experts said Monday. The freeze, decreed by President Vladimir Putin for "exceptional circumstances" relating to Russia's security and due to take effect on December 12, is a new attempt to undermine US and NATO projects, the experts said ... more NATO Weighs Response To Russian Arms Treaty Freeze 
Brussels (AFP) Jul 17, 2007NATO is weighing its response to a "tough" Russian announcement that it will suspend a key Soviet-era arms treaty in December, a NATO diplomat said Monday. "Moscow has sent a quite tough memorandum ... on the reasons that led it to suspend the treaty and which sets the date from which it will apply as December 12," the diplomat said, on condition of anonymity. "The 26 NATO members are cons ... more US Sees No Link Between CFE Suspension And Missile Shield 
Washington (AFP) Jul 17, 2007The United States denied Monday any cause and effect between Russia's suspension of a treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe and US plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe. "I am not sure I get the linkage between the CFE and missile defense," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. "I would put to you that the Russian issue, shall we say, with the CFE treaty extends ... more |
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Plesetsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 15, 2007A leading Russian space company said Sunday it had signed 14 deals for the commercial launches of its Proton carrier rockets. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center produces Proton boosters that are widely used for the commercial launches of foreign spacecraft and within the framework of the International Space Station, the world's sole orbiter. Vladimir Nesterov, the he ... more Russia Pulls Out Of Key European Arms Treaty 
Moscow (AFP) July 14, 2007Russia will no longer respect a key arms treaty that limits the deployment of military forces in Europe, the Kremlin said Saturday in the latest escalation of tensions between Moscow and the West. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree suspending Russia's adherence to the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) arms control treaty due to "exceptional circumstances ... broaching on the securit ... more North Korea Confirms Reactor Shutdown 
Seoul (AFP) July 15, 2007North Korea confirmed Sunday that it had shut down its Yongbyon atomic reactor under UN supervision, the first step in a process designed to rid the communist state of nuclear weapons. The closure of the facility, which produces plutonium for nuclear weapons, is the first step taken by Pyongyang toward ending its atomic programme since 2002, and the first phase of a six-nation disarmament deal r ... more Space Station Crew Gets Rid Of Trash 
Houston (UPI) Jul 13, 2007The International Space Station crew is preparing for the arrival of another Russian cargo spacecraft by discarding no longer needed items. The discarded hardware and miscellaneous items are being loaded into the Progress 24 cargo craft that will be cast off Aug. 1, to eventually be incinerated when it enters the Earth's atmosphere. With all trash gathered and stowed from the U.S. side, cosmonau ... more
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