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The US Finally Agrees To Care For Marines Poisoned By Camp Lejune Drinking...

The government continues to struggle to provide veterans with the health care and transition assistance they need. But an overdue Congress got one right this week in passing the “Honoring America’s...

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How Israel Received Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material From a US Company

On July 19, 1969, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger wrote the following about Israel's nuclear weapons program: "There is circumstantial evidence that some fissionable material available...

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The World Was Never Closer To Nuclear War Than On Jan. 25, 1995

In the 67 years since the first nuclear weapon was used, there is only one time the so-called nuclear briefcases were broken out and opened up, and on January 25, 1995 they nearly launched Russia's...

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The Army Lost Control Of The Missile Defense Agency For The First Time Ever

Control of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency has been in the hands of the Army since Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983. And while recent events aren't entirely to blame for...

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Defense Contractors To Congress: Stop Military Spending Cuts, Even If You...

The very real possibility that defense programs will suffer deep, across the board spending cuts early next year has major defense contractors and their allies making an unusual plea to members of...

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White Supremacist Groups May Be Actively Recruiting US Servicemembers

Are white supremacists recruiting from within the ranks of the US military? That question – revived by killings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin this week – has been the fear of civil rights groups like...

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Police Radio Transmissions Raise The Possibility There Were Multiple Shooters...

At a July 20 press conference Aurora police Chief Dan Oates said investigators were confident that James Holmes acted alone in the largest mass shooting in U.S. history by casualties and that...

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Russia And China Really Mucked Things Up In Syria

Kofi Annan has just three weeks left to serve out his time as the UN envoy for Syria. Understandably disappointed at the failure of what others had called "mission impossible" – a description he came...

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PHOTOS: Khalid Shudooh's Happy Life In America Before He Was Deported

Khalid Shudooh was a football player and honor student who had lived in the U.S. since he was four and his family moved from Jordan. But when his father fell on tough times and left the country,...

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US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange Sprayed On Vietnam During The War

HANOI (Reuters) - The United States and Vietnam on Thursday began cleaning up the toxic chemical defoliant Agent Orange on part of Danang International Airport, marking the first time Washington has...

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A New Alliance Is Forming To Support The Missile Shield Against Iran

We've been seeing reports for weeks of missile sales to the gulf states in recent weeks. There was a sale of missiles to Qatar, sales of the Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) system to the...

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The Saudis Warn Israel They Will Shoot Down Any Jets Using Its Airspace For A...

Israel has only a handful of flight paths it can use to bomb Iran's alleged nuclear sites, and one of those is off the table after Saudi Arabia vowed to take down any Israeli jet flying its airspace....

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This Graffiti Shows How A Lot Of Iranians Feel About Nuclear Energy

As sanctions bite and the average Iranian citizen has a hard time affording even staple food items like chicken, it makes sense there would be growing frustration with the cause of it all: Tehran's...

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France Is Preparing A Plan To Evacuate Its Citizens From Israel

French newspaper La Tribune reports that an evacuation plan for 200,000 French citizens currently living in Israel has been devised. French diplomatic sources told the newspaper that the plan was...

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The 'Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air' Is A Huge Hit Among Guantánamo Inmates

From the Miami Herald, a defense contractor working at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has confirmed that the most popular show for detainees is by far the 90's Will Smith vehicle "The Fresh...

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Retired Hezbollah General Says Iran Is Building A Nuke To 'Finish Off' The...

Hezbollah PM and retired Brig. Gen. Walid Sakariya told Lebanese television this week that the nuclear weapon Iran is allegedly developing is intended to "create a balance of terror with Israel" and...

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The X-47B Drone Plane Can Carry 4,500 Pounds Of Weapons And Operate All On...

The X-47B drone took its first recorded flight in September (video below) and the Navy announced it will be able to refuel itself by 2014.  Check out the pictures > The move will allow the X-47B to...

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This Animated Video Shows What The New X-47B Drone Will Really Be Able To Do

All we've been given of Northrop Grumman's X-47B so far are some general specs, a couple of videos and a bunch of pictures.  But the Navy's new stealth drone is meant to do impressive things, which is...

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The Navy's Modified X-47B Unmanned Drone Makes China's 'Carrier-Killing'...

The X-47B, unmanned carrier drone, took its first recorded flight in September (video below) and the Navy just announced it's adding refueling capabilities to the aircraft by 2014. David Ax, at Wired,...

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Video Of The F-35 Dropping Its First 1,000 Pound Smart Bomb

Considering the obstacles and resistance the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has encountered it's no wonder Lockheed Martin is eager to display the jet's milestones, and this is a big one. A...

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