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BEIJING—Cyberattacks could be “as serious as a nuclear bomb,” according to a top Chinese general, who rejected suggestions that the Chinese military is behind cyberspying aimed at Western companies. Gen. Fang Fenghui, chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army, made the comments after meeting with his U.S. counterpart Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cybersecurity was one of a number of sensitive issues covered. The Obama administration is [...] PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s newest batch of future soldiers — scrawny 11-year-olds with freshly shaved heads — punch the air as they practice taekwondo on the grounds of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School. Students and teachers here say they’re studying harder these days to prepare for a fight. Across the country, banners, slogans and artwork have been redrawn to focus on fighting “the imperialist Americans and their traitorous followers,” [...] A brilliant ball of flame streaked across the sky above the Spanish capital Madrid, dazzling stargazers and astronomers alike. The celestial display was so bright it could be seen across the entire country. Although the meteorite measured only a few meters in diameter, scientists estimated that the initial explosion was comparable in power to a nuclear bomb. Images show Iran’s Arak plant is operational The Telegraph says Tehran operating Arak heavy-water production plant in effort to produce plutonium which can be used to make nuclear bomb. Plant protected by anti-aircraft missiles The images show signs of activity at the Arak plant, located 150 miles south-west of Tehran, including a cloud of steam that indicates heavy-water production. http://www.ynetnews.com/…./448335317801283408258no.jpg Mark Fitzpatrick, a former US State Department official told the British newspaper that Arak [...] As you head off for your Presidents’ Day weekend, The Cable would just like to note that it’s now been over 72 hours since Secretary of State John Kerry reached out to Russian Foreign MinisterSergei Lavrov – without getting a call back. As The Cable reported earlier this week, Kerry reached out to Lavrov after North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb on Feb. 11, as well as the foreign ministers of Japan, China, and South Korea. Lavrov, who [...] S. Korea ready to launch preemptive strike against N. Korea South Korea’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military would launch a preemptive attack if “signs of an imminent nuclear weapon launch against the South were detected.” Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/8/s-korea-ready-launch-preemptive-strike-n-korea/#ixzz2KPHmJrG1
South Korea will launch a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang if the antagonist to its north moves to test a nuclear weapon. Seoul said a first strike would be preferable to North [...] McDonald’s Corp (MCD) said on Friday that January sales at established restaurants around the world fell 1.9 percent, a steeper decline than expected as fast-food chains fight for diners. … McDonald’s expected sales and profit growth to be under pressure in the near term, as diners spend cautiously due to lackluster economic growth in most major markets. At the same time, the leading fast food chain is comparing against strong results from [...] Iranian scientists – with Russian help – have set up two sites to use laser technology to enrich uranium for the regime’s nuclear bomb program, according to a source in the Revolutionary Guards intelligence unit. The Russians had argued that due to IAEA monitoring and Western countries’ lurking satellites, it would be wise to use lasers to enrich uranium as, the source added, it is 16 times more productive, requires less [...] A CHINESE military officer has raised the spectre of nuclear weapons and warned Australia not to side with the United States and Japan as a territorial dispute in the East China Sea continues to escalate. Senior Colonel Liu Mingfu, of the National Defence University, blamed America’s ”orchestration” and Japan’s ”militarism” for rising tensions over disputed islands known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China. ”America is the global tiger [...] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is convening an emergency meeting Monday of his cabinet and others from the Supreme National Security Council over WND’s revelation of the Islamic regime’s secret nuclear facility. The exclusive WND report on Jan. 7 said the secret facility is in Khondab near the city of Arak in central Iran. “IRAN’S NUCLEAR BOMB PROGRAM COMPLETE” http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/irans-nuclear-bomb-program-complete/ According to a source in the Revolutionary Guards intelligence unit with access to Iran’s nuclear [...] Medvedev warns of a regional nuclear war! Follow links to the MSM news article: http://twitter.com/DEBBYGIRL1 Turkey will not accept Iran possessing nuclear weapons President Abdullah Gül has called for a comprehensive solution to an international dispute over Iran’s nuclear program and said Turkey does not want to see any neighboring country possess nuclear weapons. “Turkey will not accept a neighboring country possessing weapons not possessed by Turkey herself,” Gül said in an interview published in [...] BBC North Korea’s recent rocket launch shows it has the ability to fire a rocket more than 10,000km (6,200 miles), South Korean officials say. The estimate, which would potentially put the Western US in range, was based on an analysis of rocket debris. However, there was no confirmation that the North had the re-entry technology needed to deliver a missile. Experts believe North Korea is also years away from gaining the [...] The story received very little attention in the media, and a lot of us who follow science and technology research missed it – we now have a working electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) missile that will be used as an offensive or defensive weapon by the military. The project test was announced on September 22, 2012, and codenamed, the ‘Counter-Electronics High Power Advanced Missile Project’, or simply ‘CHAMP’. This is the first [...] Scientists were hoping for giant flash on the moon that would intimidate the Soviet Union Plan was later scrapped due to possible danger to people on Earth It may sound like a plot straight out of a science fiction novel, but a U.S. mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s. At the height of the space [...] Neutron detonator, warhead design for missile nearly completed Work surrounding Iran’s latest secret nuclear site continues unabated, new satellite images from DigitalGlobe show. http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/11/M.Factory-1.jpg Site several years ago http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/11/Velayat-1-Medicine-factory-1-2012-C.jpg This year The site – Velayat 1 – which is in the province of Isfahan on the outskirts of the small city of Najafabad, was built for research and development and has a capacity of 800 centrifuges for uranium enrichment. It already has successfully tested a neutron [...] Iran has drawn back from its ambitions to build a nuclear weapon, Israel’s defense minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday, while warning that his country may still have to decide next year whether to launch a military strike against it. http://news.yahoo.com/iran-pulls-back-nuclear-bomb-goal-israeli-defense-184216417.html An electromagnetic pulse attack — the ‘other’ Iranian nuclear threat Some experts say Tehran may be preparing for an EMP strike — which could ‘fry’ electrical grids, with devastating consequences By David Shamah October 14, 2012, 7:31 pm … While political scientists and world leaders have debated the likelihood of those two possibilities, there is a third plausible scenario: The use of a nuclear weapon by Iran to carry out an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) [...] VIENNA (AP) — Iran now could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to arm a nuclear bomb within two to four months but would still face serious “engineering challenges” – and much longer delays – before it would be able to use the material in an atomic warhead, a respected U.S. think tank said Monday…. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR The sabotage of the Fordo uranium enrichment facility’s power lines on Aug. 17 gave Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu extra leeway to move his original red line for Iran from late September 2012 – now – to the spring or early summer of 2013. The disruption of the underground enrichment plant’s power supply caused several of the advanced IR-1 and IR-4 centrifuges producing the 20-percent grade uranium to burst into flames. Work [...] by WashingtonsBlog Will Israel Blow Up Something and Falsely Blame It On Iran? According to U.S. officials, Israel is training and supporting Iranian terrorists who are trying to topple the Iranian government. Those Israeli-funded terrorists have faked documents to falsely indicate that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. 1 Israel has admitted to previous use of false flag attacks to justify war against Middle Eastern nations. For example, Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including [...] Despite Washington clearly not favoring military confrontation with Iran – Israel isn’t ruling it out. Major drills simulating missile strikes in case of a war with the Islamic State have been held in Tel Aviv. And these emergency exercises are not the only way Israelis are being prepared for an attack, as RT’s Middle East correspondent Paula Slier explains.
The First Trumpet – World War I No previous wars with even 1 [...] NEW INTELLIGENCE ON IRAN NUKE WORK VIENNA (AP) — Diplomats say the U.N. atomic agency has new intelligence that Iran has advanced its work on calculating the destructive power of a nuclear warhead, a STEP toward building such a weapon. The diplomats say the information – from the U.S., Israel and at least one other country – alleges the research was done within the past three years. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-11-05-43-08 AP EXCLUSIVE: NEW INTELLIGENCE ON IRAN [...] President Obama’s former special envoy to the Middle East has said more pressure should be put on Iran to stop it taking the next steps towards making nuclear weapons. In his first British interview since stepping down, Dennis Ross explained the challenges facing diplomacy in the region. If Iran gets a nuclear bomb, he said, it will lead to a nuclear arms race with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which will “dramatically increase [...] NKorea is threatening to get out of all treaties… http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_Po_detail.htm?No=92545 U.S. magazine, Foreign Policy, says North Korean officials told U.S. officials during a private meeting in Singapore last month that Pyongyang is no longer interested in an agreement reached earlier on February 29th. Under the agreement, the communist state agreed to a moratorium on nuclear tests, long-range missile launches and its uranium enrichment program. And this… North [...]
North Korea is technically capable of conducting a nuclear test in as little as two weeks, according to a study published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The scientists also raise the possibility that North Korea would conduct two detonations simultaneously, with one bomb made from plutonium, as in previous tests, and the other made from highly enriched uranium. “Two detonations will yield much more technical information than one, and they [...] |
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