Why Russia Is Flexing Its Muscles
Moscow’s latest saber-rattling — flying long-range bomber patrols toward the U.S. and Britain, launching planes from its sole aircraft carrier, redeploying the Russian
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Information Warfare
DARPA Hearts HAARP; Tinfoil Hats Melt
Depending on who you talk to, HAARP — the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program — is either an ionosphere-boiling superweapon, a giant
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Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers’ brains
The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers’ brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6
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Chinese nuclear sub shows up on Google Earth
Increasingly, tools readily available on the Internet enable independent specialists or even members of the general public to do intelligence work that used
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Current nuclear threat worse than during Cold War
WASHINGTON, July 19 (RIA Novosti) – The risks of an accidental nuclear war have increased since the Cold War as Russia’s early warning
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iRobot Receives $14 Million Order for PacBots
iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT) received a US Navy order worth $14 million, part of an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to supply of PackBot man transportable
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Satellite Pit Stop
According to DARPA’s website “the goal of the Orbital Express Space Operations Architecture program is to validate the technical feasibility of robotic, autonomous
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Russians threaten to counter US shield
Russia could site cruise missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, if the US goes ahead with plans for a
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Russia-NATO: a marriage of convenience?
Read my comprehensive news summary of the missile shield problematique on the Lifeboat Foundation blog (“The Missile Shield and the Race for Space Awareness“).
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Iran Vows Large-Scale Retaliation if U.S. Attacks
“The name of the game is simply to saturate strategic targets with missile firepower in order to render the Patriots and other defenses
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