The Defense Department's chief procurement official has questioned a House of Representatives' proposal to restrict additional funding for the expiring MEADS missile defense system, The Hill reported on Monday (see GSN, March 22).

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Russia has eliminated more than 50 percent of its original stockpile of approximately 40,000 metric tons of chemical warfare materials, Interfax reported on Monday (see GSN, March 25).

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No destruction, no problem.

--Iranian Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh, dismissing the impact of the Stuxnet computer virus on nuclear and other operations in his country.

European and U.S. armed forces are likely to possess 80,000 cruise missiles within the next decade, including thousands of nuclear-tipped weapons, the Russian army General Staff indicated on Saturday (see GSN, April 8, 2010).

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The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is moving toward the conclusion that it will not be able to bring the damaged facility under control in 2011, Kyodo News reported on Monday (see GSN, May 27).

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The U.S. Army said last week it had received its initial two Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense missile interceptors (see GSN, Aug. 18, 2010).

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President Obama's term is likely to end without an agreement with Russia on missile defense, a senior U.S. envoy said on Friday (see GSN, May 27).

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An Iranian nuclear arsenal would be dwarfed in size by the stockpiles held by the United States and other countries, rendering its hypothetical establishment a "strategic mistake" for the Middle Eastern nation, Tehran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Read more...)

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin is heading a group of companies that appears set to take over management of the facility that holds the United Kingdom's arsenal of nuclear-tipped Trident missiles, the Scotland Sunday Herald reported (see GSN, Nov. 1, (Read more...)

WASHINGTON -- The leaders of the world's top industrial powers on Friday renewed the mandate of a program intended to prevent terrorists or rogue nations from acquiring weapons of mass destruction (see GSN, March 9.).

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