Topic: W A R - on October 22, 2002 at 10:11:44 PM CEST
Smart bombs still stupid
"Smart" bombs have advanced by magnitudes since 1991. But war takes place under imperfect conditions. Targeting data may be faulty, computer chips can fail, and greater accuracy can breed overconfidence.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 10:07:26 PM CEST
Holocaust survivor says the world has learnt little since Auschwitz
"The world seems to be careening towards new forms of madness, new disasters reminiscent of those which half-a-century ago destroyed my world, my family and my childhood." It is as if two people cohabit within 73-year-old Pisar. One is the modern man of international affairs, who has advised heads of state as diverse as John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:02:36 PM CEST
Troops Report Daytime Rocket Attack at U.S. Base in Afghanistan;
Three U.S.-Made Rockets Found
U.S. troops reported an unusual daytime rocket attack on one of their outposts in eastern Afghanistan, the military said Tuesday. The rocket missed the base, and there were no injuries. Special forces at the Chapman Army airfield near Khost spotted the rocket flying toward them at about 10 a.m. Monday, but it landed west of the base, said Col. Roger King. Troops could not pinpoint the launch site.
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Topic: - on October 19, 2002 at 8:43:40 PM CEST
Boeing makes once-secret, subsonic 'Bird of Prey' public
Named after a Klingon spacecraft in "Star Trek," The Boeing Co. yesterday took the wraps off what was once one of its most classified "black" military airplane projects known as the "Bird of Prey." The plane, which looks like something that should be flying -- and probably once did -- at the super-secret Area 51 Nevada test range, helped Boeing pioneer stealth technology and new and more-affordable ways to design and build airplanes.
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Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 4:34:23 PM CEST
Unmanned U.S. Spy Plane Crashes in Pakistan-Police
An unmanned U.S. spy plane crashed in southern Pakistan on Thursday just after it took off from a military air base, police officials said. The Desert Hawk plane took off from Jacobabad air base in southern Sindh province early on Thursday, but crashed soon afterwards, a police official who asked not to be identified said. He cited engine failure as the cause of the accident and ruled out rumors that it was shot down by unidentified gunmen. "It fell just outside the air base boundary," he said.
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Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 11:00:55 AM CEST
U.S. says N. Korea admits secret nuclear program
North Korea, confronted with U.S. "evidence," has acknowledged to the United States that it has operated a secret nuclear program for several years in violation of a 1994 agreement, senior U.S. officials have said. One of the officials told Reuters Wednesday that the Bush administration believed North Korea's activities "have effectively nullified the 1994 Agreed Framework," an agreement under which Pyongyang promised to freeze its nuclear program.
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Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 3:03:18 AM CEST
Bush takes powers to launch war on Saddam
US president and UN remain in dispute as Blair refuses to talk of troop deployment and army prepares tanks for desert conditions. President George Bush urged a wavering world yesterday "to face up to our global responsibility" to defend the peace and deal with the threat of Saddam Hussein. But even as he made his appeal, diplomats from a wide range of countries lined up at the United Nations to denounce plans for military strikes against Iraq.
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Topic: - on October 15, 2002 at 5:42:51 PM CEST
MISSILE INTERCEPT TEST SUCCESSFUL
A modified Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile target vehicle was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 10 p.m. EDT, and a prototype interceptor was launched 22 minutes later and 4,800 miles away from the Ronald Reagan Missile Site Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The intercept took place approximately six minutes after the interceptor was launched, at an altitude in excess of 140 miles above the earth, and during the midcourse phase of the target warhead's flight. This was the fifth successful intercept--and the fourth consecutive--in seven flight tests since October 1999 for the GMD program.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 5:58:55 PM CEST
The Pentagon’s blinding lasers
Now You See, Now You Don’t
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, who together had $20.3 billion in Pentagon contracts in 2001, are collaborating on development of “directed energy weapons”—powerful 100-kilowatt infrared lasers for use on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The JSF program, worth an estimated $200 billion, is Lockheed Martin’s crowning accomplishment. If all goes well, the Pentagon will soon order as many as 3,000 F-35s, making it the largest acquisition program in history.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 5:40:02 PM CEST
Did Germany give Iraq nuclear technology?
Film Probes German-Iraq Nuclear Link
The documentary, "Stealing the Fire," also offers a rare close-up look at a "proliferator," the engineer Karl-Heinz Schaab, who emerges on film as a bland, gray, fastidious 68-year-old technician who protests he's "too small to be turned into a scapegoat for the others." The film, produced and directed by Oscar-winning documentarian John S. Friedman and Eric Nadler, premieres Tuesday at a New York theater.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 1:49:01 PM CEST
Ukraine 'sold aircraft detectors to Saddam'
British and American experts arrived in Ukraine yesterday to investigate the alleged illegal supply of military equipment to Iraq in a mission which could permanently sour relations between the West and Kiev. An American embassy spokesman in Kiev said the team would "obtain information that could help determine whether Kolchuga [aircraft detection] systems were transferred to Iraq".
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 1:30:41 PM CEST
Don't mention the war:
German star takes charge of Iraq's football side
Reached at his Baghdad hotel, Bernd Stange, 54, said: 'It's a great chance to get to World Cup 2006.' While they have been holding out concessions and smoothing over misunderstandings following Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's controversial attack on America over its plans for a 'military adventure' in Iraq, one of their fellow countrymen has been hard at work in a different direction, negotiating to become the new coach of Iraq's national football team.
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