Washington will scrap plans to put anti-missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and is looking at alternatives including Israel and Turkey, a Polish newspaper reported Aug. 27, citing U.S. officials.

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Marcel Media CEO Kelly Cutler to speak about online marketing and search engine optimization at American Business Media's first Chicago Regional Conference.

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Russia has become more rigid in dealing with the United States on issues like the Bush administration's plans for a missile shield in Europe, and it looks ready to test the administration of President-elect Barack Obama, a senior American diplomat said Wednesday.

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Russian President Dimitri Medvedev chose yesterday of all days to announce that Russia might deploy conventionally-armed short ranged missiles in the Baltic region if the US goes ahead with the Bush administration's planned ABM installations in Eastern Europe.

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New Russian threat comes in response to war in Caucasus, US-Poland deal for missile defense shield in Europe. According to Sunday Times, nuclear warheads could be supplied to submarines, cruisers and fighter bombers of Russia's Baltic fleet based between Poland and Lithuania

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A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile defense battery exposes ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.

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Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian newspaper reported Monday, citing an unnamed senior Russian air force official.

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WASHINGTON - A Navy missile soaring 130 miles above the Pacific smashed a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite Wednesday and probably destroyed a tank carrying 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT

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Digital beamforming radars will likely find their first homes on ships that track missile threats to U.S. fleets. Those threats will come from ballistic launches hundreds of miles away or from high-speed missiles launched from submarines or warplanes.

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A recent US National Intelligence Assessment [redacted NIE summary] believes Iran's nuclear program has stopped, but others, including the United Nations and Israel are more skeptical.

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"The nuclear doomsday machine." It's a Cold War term that has long seemed obsolete.

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The war of words between Moscow and the west over missile defence intensified over the weekend as Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, declared a new radar station near St Petersburg to be "the first step in a large-scale programme".

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This week the Russian and Chinese militaries are conducting a joint military exercise involving large numbers of troops and combat vehicles. The former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgkyzstan, and Kazakstan are participating.

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The West says that it is perplexed by Russia's "aggressive" behavior of late, and suggests that Moscow is desirous to regain its past superpower status, and even a little empire. But if cashing in on oil is imperialism, how do we explain the following U.S. moves:

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President Vladimir Putin yesterday signalled that Russia was on a new and explosive collision course with Nato when he dumped a key arms control treaty limiting the deployment of conventional forces in Europe.

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Boeing will play a key role in building the bases in Poland for the limited ABM defenses the US wants...and thus likely annoy Russia, which may take other actions against Boeing interests.

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Japan has said it is seeking to build an anti-missile system as quickly as possible and will move its Air Defence Command to a US military base. The missile system will cover all of East Asia and have the potential to reach the northern tip of Australia and part of Alaska, a  …

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Mr Putin Has A Point -- Anti-Ballistic Missiles and the Threat of a New Cold War

Before 9-11, before the war on terror, before Iraq and Afghanistan, the Surge, and the Hunt for Bin Laden – Anti-Ballistic Missiles were the controversial leading-edge of the Bush Administration's Foreign Policy.

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In the days running up to the G-8 Summit in Germany this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been denouncing U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Central Europe. According to the top U.S.

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VLADIMIR PUTIN: I would start with the Adapted Conventional Armed Forces Treaty in Europe (ACAF). We have not just stated that we are ready to comply with the treaty, like certain others have done.

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This would be a huge blow to Russian pride and will indeed force Russia to review much of its missile capability.

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US plans to expand its embryonic missile defence shield to the Czech Republic and Poland are an "an obvious threat", Russia military officials say. Poland has confirmed the US wants to negotiate the use of its territory to build part of its missile defence base.

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Russia's military has commissioned its first unit of new intercontinental ballistic missiles mounted on mobile launchers, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Sunday.

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India has been lucky to produce many truly brilliant scientists, engineers and theoreticians, but in many cases these individuals have gone overseas to exploit their talents.

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"The deployment of missile defence near the Russian borders could pose a real threat to our deterrent forces," Buzhinsky said in the article. "We would view that as an unfriendly gesture on behalf of the United States, some eastern European nations and Nato as a whole.

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