Tag: defense
group name: fas
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May 10, 2007 11:00 AM EDT --
Shaheen 2 launch
Pakistan is preparing its next-generation of nuclear-capable ballistic missile for deployment. A satellite image taken on June 5, 2005, shows what appears to be 15 Transporter . . .
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June 18, 2007 03:36 PM EDT --
To visit the Federation of American Scientists www.fas.org
On Thursday 14 June, Dr. John Harvey, the Director of Policy Planning Staff of the National Nuclear Security Agency, spoke at the New . . .
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March 22, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
Despite frequent complains about lack of transparency in Chinese military planning, a new report from the Office of Naval Intelligence – recently described in the Washington Times and subsequently . . .
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January 23, 2007 02:41 PM EST --
In a major foreign policy blunder, China reportedly has conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) test. First reported in Aviation Week and Space Technology, China allegedly used a medium-range ballistic missile . . .
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March 07, 2007 10:21 AM EST --
US Air Force Decides to Retire Advanced Cruise Missile
The U.S. Air Force has decided to retire the Advanced Cruise Missile, the most modern and capable nuclear cruise missile in the U.S. arsenal, according . . .
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May 02, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
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The Bush administration announced in 2004 that it had decided to cut the nuclear weapons stockpile "nearly in half" by 2012, but has refused . . .
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February 06, 2007 02:26 PM EST --
China's entire submarine fleet conducted only two patrols in 2006, according to information declassified by the U.S. Navy and obtained by the Federation of American Scientists under the Freedom of . . .
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November 15, 2007 11:09 PM EST --
US Arms Sales to Pakistan: New CRS Report
A new Congressional Research Service report on "U.S. Arms Sales to Pakistan" recently obtained by the FAS provides a succinct overview of recent . . .
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March 15, 2007 04:23 PM EDT --
"It is not true,” British Defence Secretary Des Browne insisted during an interview with BBC radio, that a new fuze planned for British nuclear warheads and reported by the Guardian will increase . . .
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May 16, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
Rep. Israel Introduces new counter-MANPADS legislation
On Thursday, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) introduced a new bill that would require the Pentagon to establish a pilot program "to determine the . . .
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May 24, 2007 02:29 PM EDT --
The FAS has acquired, via a Freedom of Information Act request, additional information about a cache of "22 surface-to-air missiles" discovered by Coalition Forces north of Baghdad . . .
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February 19, 2008 01:41 PM EST --
The United States is planning to intercept a dying reconnaissance satellite with a missile launched from a Navy ship. The administration justifies the intercept on the basis of public safety. That is . . .
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June 18, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
DOD UPDATES POLICY ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
To qualify for conscientious objector status and to be granted military discharge on that basis, an individual must oppose all wars, not just a particular . . .
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March 26, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
The Columbian military recently raided FARC camps just across their borders. The Columbians confiscated lap top computers containing emails between the FARC and dealers offering to sell . . .
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June 21, 2007 02:50 PM EDT --
The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney proposed to abolish the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), the executive branch organization that oversees the national security classification system, . . .
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February 08, 2007 04:32 PM EST --
The National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. intelligence agency that builds and operates spy satellites, has released a redacted version of its declassification guide (pdf) for review of historical records . . .
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June 21, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing last April on the policy of "extraordinary rendition," referring to the seizure of suspected terrorists and their transfer to a foreign country . . .
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June 05, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
Letters sent to Judge Reggie B. Walton regarding the sentencing of vice presidential aide Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of obstruction of justice, were released by the court today. . . .
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July 19, 2007 02:33 PM EDT --
The now month-long clash between Russia and the West over U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Europe should warn us that - despite important progress in some areas - Cold War thinking is alive . . .
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April 28, 2008 10:30 AM EDT --
The number of deterrence patrols conducted by Russia's 11 nuclear-powered ballistic missiles submarines (SSBNs) decreased to only three in 2007 from five in 2006, according to our latest Nuclear . . .
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