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A nuclear attack on Tokyo would kill tens of thousands. Here's What You Need to Remember: Tokyo could be struck by multiple nuclear weapons, but North Korea has more targets than weapons at this point, and multiple strikes are unlikely. North Korea would also have Japan’s layered ballistic-missile defenses, consisting of SM-3 interceptors on Aegis destroyers backstopped by the Patriot PAC-3 missile system, to contend with. Tokyo has a population of 13.491 million, making it by far the largest city in Japan and home to more than 10 percent of the nation’s population. The greater Tokyo are...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's military correspondent. An upgraded version of the Iron Dome air defense system on Monday completed a fresh set of trials simulating threats the system is likely to face on land and at sea, the Defense Ministry said. The more-advanced model of the Iron Dome is due to be installed on the Israeli Navy’s new Sa’ar-6 corvettes, which are tasked with guarding the natural gas platforms off Israel’s coast as well as its shipping lanes. The Defense Ministry said the tests, which the Iron Dome passed, represented “an important milestone in developing th...

Belarus Negotiating to buy Russian S-400 Air Defense System Our Bureau 2204 S-400 air defense system Belarus could become the new customer for Russian S-400 air defense systems with negotiations already underway. "We are continuing the pre-contract work to re-equip our anti-aircraft missile divisions armed with the S-300 with the new S-400 and Pantsir-S systems,” Chief of the Air Force and Air Defense Command of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Major-General Igor Golub said during a joint exercise involving various service branches and special forces of the Air Force and Air Defense Command o...

Belarus president makes new appointments in Air Force and Air Defense Command At the 50th Mixed Air Force and Air Defense Base. An archive photo MINSK, 30 December (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has made new appointments in Air Force and Air Defense Command of the Armed Forces. The head of state signed the relevant decrees on 29 December, BelTA learned from the Belarusian leader's press service. Major General Sergei Trus has been relieved of his position as Chief of the General Staff - First Deputy Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Command and transferred from reg...

NORAD's Santa Tracker annually shows where St. Nick is in his travels. The website also has games, music and other holiday fun.