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When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth satellite, the basketball-sized Sputnik, it caught the United States off guard and sent the government into fits. Not only had the Soviets exploded an atomic bomb years before the Americans

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States has turned down Israeli requests for military hardware to help it prepare for a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, a frontpage report in Israel's Haaretz

Since World War II’s Manhattan Project, the above-top secret program that built the atomic bomb subsequently dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. national security state has transformed scientific research into a branch of

If al-Qa’ida was unleashing this weather of mass destruction, we would do anything toImagine if tomorrow the CIA and MI6 discover that Osama bin Laden has invented an incredible new weapon. This machine - stashed away in some dusty Afghan cave - doubles

Since WW II, America has actively developed, tested, and used terror weapons, including biological ones. Even after Nixon ended the nation's biowarfare programs, they never stopped. The CIA remained active through a loophole in the law, then the Reagan ad

The leader of the UVF-linked Progressive Unionist Party has said she would like to see loyalists decommission their weapons.

Dawn Purvis said minds would be focused on the issue after Secretary of State Shaun Woodward warned legal ways of decommissioning would not last forever. The UVF announced it was putting its weapons beyond reach last year.

Intelligence experts say such work has been shelved for now -- a change in consensus with major implications for U.S. policy.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Negotiators trying to move forward with disarming North Korea began a second day of talks on Friday that aim to agree on methods to verify the North's own account of its nuclear activities. Envoys

The US Army’s XM1063 projectile is designed to be ‘non-lethal’ - but is it peaceful or hovering on the brink of illegality?