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If the rising knife-crime in London wasn’t nightmarish enough, a new weapon from America is expected to enter the UK very soon and the police have been instructed to stay on alert. The ‘Wasp Knife’ injects a ball of compressed gas, which inflates...
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The Pentagon is starting work on a nuclear mission statement that envisions the U.S. maintaining its atomic weapons stockpile for the next five to 10 years, a far more...
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The Obama administration has chalked up a quick victory in its drive to kill an expensive jet fighter better suited for the Cold War than Afghanistan, but more...
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The Energy Department will spend $6 billion as part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package to clean up nuclear weapons sites at Cold War-era facilities,...
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AP, Mexico City
President Barack Obama says he prefers to focus on enforcing existing laws to keep assault weapons out of Mexico, rather than trying to renew a U.S. ban on the...
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AP, Washington
The Pentagon’s system for buying large weapon projects has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars, and efforts to reform it will be difficult, according to a...
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Nine nations working on a plan to prevent arms smuggling into the volatile Gaza Strip have agreed to use existing United Nations resolutions as a legal basis for their...
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AP, New York
An Armenian immigrant has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for plotting to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons from the former Soviet Union to an...
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AP, Moscow
News reports quote a senior general as saying Russia is developing anti-satellite weapons.
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Robin Williams is canceling several performances in Florida of his one-man comedy show, “Weapons of Self-Destruction,” after recently experiencing shortness...
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President Barack Obama promised greater scrutiny of Pentagon weapons buying in his 2010 budget released Thursday, following recent runaway costs and missed deadlines on...
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AP, Moscow
Modernization of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces is a top priority for the government, a senior Cabinet official said Wednesday.
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Russian news agencies are quoting a senior prosecutor as saying that his office has exposed an attempt by military officers to smuggle $18 million worth of stolen...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israeli weapons developers traced the paths of hundreds of rockets fired by militants during the recent Gaza fighting, hoping the data will help perfect a planned...
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AP, Kuwait City
France is in discussions to sell combat jets, frigates and an anti-missile defense system to Kuwait, the French president said Wednesday, the latest effort to raise his...
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AP, Washington
The Defense Department’s chief weapons buyer defended the Pentagon’s acquisitions record Thursday, responding to criticism that the military has let costs...
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Among the many things that President Obama did and called for in his first week as President of the United States was a lightly covered, highly overlooked, yet...
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U.S. defense officials say the military intercepted and searched an Iranian-owned ship that officials feared was carrying arms to Hamas. It’s unclear whether...
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AP, United Nations
Iraq has given the United Nations its ratification of the treaty banning chemical weapons, a move welcomed by the U.N. chief as a demonstration of the country’s...
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AP, United Nations
Iraq deposited its ratification of a chemical weapons ban treaty at the U.N. Tuesday, a move welcomed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a demonstration of the...
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AP, Anniston
The Army says it has destroyed the last of its weapons containing deadly nerve agents at the Anniston Army Depot in east Alabama.
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