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Australian scientists pave the way to the first International standards needed to safeguard against contamination from nuclear testing
More than 100kg of highly toxic uranium (U) and plutonium (Pu) was dispersed in the form of tiny ‘hot’ radioactive particles after the British detonated nine atomic bombs in remote areas of South Australia, including Maralinga.
Scientists have new evidence to show these radioactive particles persist in soils to this day, more than 60 years after the detonations. Previously, we had limited understanding of how Pu was released from these “hot” particles into the environment for uptake by wildlife around Maralinga.
Europe Needs an Integrated Ground-Based Air Defense Network
If Europe is serious about achieving strategic autonomy, the requirement of detaching its ground-based air defense from the United States and moving towards an integrated air defense network seems inevitable.
The composition of the contemporary European ground-based air defense landscape is problematic. European states deploy a large number of different air-defense capabilities and heavily rely on foreign and especially American systems for their air and missile defense. As a result, Europe’s ground-based air defense today looks more like an improvised patchwork rug, rather than a well-thought-out, integrated, and layered air defense network. This composition results in technical drawbacks and decreases the overall effectiveness of European air defense. In addition, the pursuit of European strategic autonomy suffers under the over-reliance on foreign systems. Because of this, European states should urgently move towards
United States says reviewing Open Skies as Vladimir Putin moves to exit
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Last Updated: May 12, 2021, 02:57 PM IST
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Moscow announced in mid-January it would leave the treaty, saying there was no progress in making it work in light of the US withdrawal. A note accompanying it said the treaty had helped to significantly strengthen trust in the defence sphere, adding that the US withdrawal upset the balance of interests of signatory states.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow, Russia April 21, 2021
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The United States said Tuesday it was reviewing the previous administration s withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty as Russia moved formally to leave the post-Cold War accord meant to build trust.
US Army’s Precision Strike Missile breaks range record 2 hours ago Lockheed Martin s PrSM missile was tested for a third time at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on April 30, 2020. (Lockheed Martin) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile ranged 400 kilometers roughly 250 miles in a test shot at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on May 12, Lockheed Martin announced. The test marks the farthest the PrSM has flown so far, which is roughly the distance between New York City and Rochester, New York. “We had impressive performance flying more than 400 kilometers in its longest range flown to date at the White Sands Missile Range,” Gaylia Campbell, Lockheed vice president of precision fires and combat maneuver systems, told a group of reporters directly following the test. ”PrSM was fired from a [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] launcher and it flew with the expected precision to the target area where it once again demonstrated a hi