Missile defense in India

A few weeks ago, Indian officials held preliminary talks with the United States about purchasing a missile defense shield from it. "India is a partner of ours, and we want to provide it with whatever it needs to protect itself," a U.S. official told the Financial Times....

Japan nominates Amano to succeed IAEA chief ElBaradei

" Japan said on Friday it had nominated Yukiya Amano, its ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, to head the U.N. watchdog when Director Mohamed ElBaradei leaves office next year. ElBaradei, 66,...

Kissinger, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Iran's Nuclear Program

Those beating the drum about Iran’s nuclear program should be made aware that the United States has been complicit in the Iranian program since the Ford administration. Then Secretary-of-State, Henry Kissinger offered a ‘strange deal’ to Pakistan that had been...

Security: Giving up our way of life a sign of the times

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWe all remember our parents telling us in days gone in the 1960,s and mid 1970's that "We never locked our doors" or Milkmen who made house to house deliveries would...

CIA: We said back in 1974 that Israel had nuclear weapons

"Last update - 10:34 11/01/2008 CIA: We said back in 1974 that Israel had nuclear weapons By Amir Oren, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Israel, CIA, nuclear weapons The Central Intelligence Agency, backed by bodies including the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and...

Mitchell takes on baseball's Troubles

"Former US Senator and Special Envoy to Northern Ireland George Mitchell has outed some of the biggest names in baseball in his long awaited report on steroid usage in Major League Baseball. His far-reaching...

8,000-year-old take on Noah's Ark

First Nations had a similar legend about Lake Agassiz and the rising waters around central Canada, so similar to Greeks and Turks legends about the Black sea's earthen dam separating the mediterranean breaking way...

RI-Australia security cooperation ratified

""This is another milestone in the strengthening of relations between the two neighboring countries," Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said in his speech at a function of the signing of the draft law. The draft law was signed at about 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday after intensive...

Internet Service Tax Moritorium Set To Expire

"nelsonjs writes "On November 1, the ban on taxing Internet service is set to expire. The ban was originally implemented in 1998 in order to encourage the proliferation of Net access. The Senate is considering two competing bills to extend the ban: one would extend it for...

THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS BLACK MARKET

The International Institute for Strategic Studies published "Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the rise of proliferation networks - A Net Assessment." Although it was published earlier this year...

Internet creates proliferation of hate sites: Adler

.....and people who are interested in fostering 'hate' wouldn't find some other means if the internet were not available?"Internet creates proliferation of hate sites: Adler Neal Hall, CanWest News Service Published: Saturday, August 11, 2007 Article tools * Printer...

Storm worm variant ignites e-mail virus deluge

There seems to be a lot of problems on the web in the last week. Sites inaccessible. Email program problems. Webhosts compromised. What's going On? "Thursday likely marked the largest proliferation of e-mail virus attacks in more than a year, according to security company...

What media bias?

"You won't believe this.........Or, maybe you will. In a story about the dangers of nuclear proliferation, check out the the introductory sentence… " Thankfully, the international report on climate change is finally forcing leaders globe-wide to acknowledge its serious...

More guns equal more murders? Say it ain't so!

The argument that pro-gun people like to make is that the more people have guns, the safer we all are because if everybody is packing, nobody would dare try anything.But a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health puts a big, hollow-tipped bullet hole in that...

U.S.-led Gulf War Game Aims a Message at Tehran

" With sanctions unlikely to deter Iran's nuclear program, Washington draws Arab allies into a dress rehearsal for intercepting suspect ships. Frigates, patrol boats and intelligence and law enforcement officers from 23 nations are massing in Bahrain over the weekend, poised...

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