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<p>TOKYO - A military expert with close ties to North Korea warned Friday that Pyongyang would test a ballistic missile capable of "splashing down off Los Angeles or New York" if the Bush administration refuses to negotiate with the communist regime.</p>

Yomiuri Shimbun of Japan reported in its Beijing dispatch on Feb. 8, 2003 that China successfully conducted the MIRV test on December, 2002, using Dong-Feng 21. The report quoted Chinese sources as saying, "The missile launch test was conducted in mid-December last year at a PLA strategic missile base in Shaxi province, and MIRV technology was apparently employed." This is apparently the first Chinese success of the MIRV missile test. China is making feverish efforts to counter American Missile Defense technology and this shows that they made a meaningful progress, the paper reports. China could not deploy MIRV missiles right...

A computer worm attack that shut down bank ATM terminals and disrupted Internet servers throughout the world may have been part of an al Qaeda terrorist threat to test the vulnerability of computer systems that serve U.S. financial interests, computer security experts say."Like the 9-11 attacks, the 'Slammer' worm was aimed at the heart of the U.S. financial community," says Leo Roth, a computer security analyst who advises the federal government. "For at least part of the weekend, a number of U.S. financial institutions were virtually shut down."Those affected include the giant Bank of America, whose nationwide ATM network went...

January 7, 2003 For Retired Chimps, a Life of LeisureBy SHERYL GAY STOLBERG AWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — The chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center were acting up. Jessie, a pink-faced 20-year-old, slapped her ample belly and hooted wildly from behind a steel gate. Dover, a mischievous 4-year-old, spied an unfamiliar human and served up his standard greeting for strangers, a fistful of feces, pitched with remarkable accuracy. Jessie and Dover do not really have to be at Yerkes, but there is nowhere else for them to go. Bred for biomedical research, they are now unemployed, a result of...

The old lignite skull ANOTHER MYSTERY SKULL... THIS TIME AN ANCIENT EUROPEAN WHICH, SAY FRANCOIS DE SARRE AND MICHEL GRANGER, COULD CHALLENGE THE OFFICIAL VIEW OF HUMAN ORIGINS. 0fficially, the origin of the first true Humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) dates back 2.5 million years. Before this time lived other hominids whose bones cannot be confused with those of Homo's lineage. Against this background, we have the 2oo-year old enigma of an 'impossibly' ancient humanoid skull from the mining town of Freiberg, in Saxony, Germany, which, if verified, could be more than 10 million years old - far older than...

Thanks to all the Freepers that helped me after my call for help in "Handgun help needed" at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/817728/posts Yesterday I purchased a SIG226 in .40 caliber having tried several others including a Glock 22. I shot the SIG best, though I realize I have much to learn and practice. As for the permit process, it was fairly straightforward and painless. I did get one basic safety question wrong: State law says that you should report a stolen firearm within a year. True / False I knew it should be reported immediately, so I put "true", reasoning that if I...

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Israelis test defence missiles in preparation for war on Iraq By Eric Silver and James Palmer 06 January 2003 Israel successfully test-fired its Arrow anti-missile defence system yesterday in a rehearsal for any Scud missile attack by Iraq in the event of an American-led war in the Gulf. The Defence Ministry hailed it as "a major step in response to the evolving threat of ballistic missiles". This was the fifth test of the system but the first against four computer-simulated Scud missiles coming in simultaneously over the Mediterranean south of Tel Aviv. In the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein launched...

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THE United States has formally asked for an RAF ballistic missile early warning station in Yorkshire to be part of America’s planned “Son of Star Wars” defence system. Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, acknowledged the request in the House of Commons as President Bush announced in Washington that he had ordered the American military to begin deploying the first elements of a national missile defence system in the United States. Ten interceptor missiles, capable of knocking out hostile ballistic systems in space, are to be installed at Fort Greeley in Alaska by 2004. Another ten will be deployed in 2005...

Entrance exam FOR WHICH WE STAND It was President George W. Bush who said, "Ignorance of American history and civics weakens our sense of citizenship." Test your civics savvy in our series of quizzes. Could you pass the test given to would-be U.S. citizens? By Jane CliffordFAMILY EDITORNovember 9, 2002 This country has always been open to those who want to make America their home. In 2000, the latest year for which figures are available, 300,662 California residents became new citizens of this country. In all, that year 888,788 men, women and children pledged their allegiance to the flag...

By WILL SENTELL wsentell@theadvocate.com Capitol news bureau Leslie Jacobs of New Orleans, a member of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and a chief architect of the state's new testing program, called the high school results distressing. "I don't believe they have really embraced accountability," Jacobs said of those who run schools in grades nine through 12. "We have a really long way to go," she said. State Superintendent of Education Cecil J. Picard echoed Jacobs' concerns. "We have some real concerns that if some schools don't buckle down, they will fall short of their goals," Picard said....

JERUSALEM: A US-Israeli team has successfully tested the latest model in Patriot anti-missile missiles, military sources said on Thursday, as Israel braces for a possible conflict with Iraq. The test was carried out on Wednesday in the Negev desert in southern Israel and had long been scheduled to take place, the sources said. During the 1991 Gulf War to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Israel was pounded by dozens of Scud missiles from Iraq, which killed two people and injured hundreds, despite the presence of earlier model Patriot batteries. Patriot missiles have been deployed to protect Israel's nuclear plant...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 November 4 Cassini Approaches Saturn Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SWRI, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: Cassini, a robot spacecraft launched in 1997 by NASA, is close enough now to resolve many rings and moons of its destination planet: Saturn. The spacecraft has closed to about two Earth-Sun separations from the ringed giant. Last month, Cassini snapped several images during an engineering test. These images have been combined into...

Japan was 'days away from test' of A-bomb By David McNeill in Tokyo 05 August 2002 Japan's secret plans to build its own atom bomb have resurfaced with the uncovering of a dossier smuggled out of the country at the end of the Second World War. The papers, containing crude diagrams for a small nuclear weapon, were part of a six-year effort by military scientists to make the country the world's first nuclear power. According to yesterday's Asahi newspaper, the American widow of a Japanese researcher, who fled to the US with the document in 1945, has returned it to...

WOOMERA, South Australia (Reuters) - A test launch of what Japanese scientists hope will be the next generation of supersonic jet failed spectacularly Sunday in the Australian desert. The superjet, a 1:10 scale model of a plane that would be able to fly twice as fast as the Concorde, dived into the ground shortly after take-off at a long-abandoned British rocket testing range in South Australia, a Reuters photographer on the scene said. "It spiraled in the sky and then crashed into the ground in flames," photographer Mark Baker said. The rocket-propelled almost 38-foot model piggy-backed on an almost...

Why drug tests flunk If the Supreme Court rules in favor of drug testing in public schools, will students come clean? Kids at schools in Indiana, where drug tests rule, say no way. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Janelle Brown April 22, 2002 | RUSHVILLE, Ind. -- According to the students at rural Rushville Consolidated High School, there are a dozen ways to pass a drug test. You can march down to the local video store and buy a packet of "Karma" urine-cleansing powder. You can toss salt in your urine sample...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Officials weighing whether to dispense smallpox vaccine to the nation were presented with the possibility Saturday that the virus might be a more effective terrorist weapon than they thought. U.S. researcher Alan Zelicoff, drawing on long-secret Soviet documents, reported on an isolated 1971 outbreak that he said appeared to have been caused by smallpox that was tested as a weapon and carried miles through the air. If that was in fact the cause of the outbreak that killed three people, it suggests that a disease known to spread mainly in close quarters also has the potential to...

Issue 31. January - February 1999 LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT OF CONVENTIONAL WARHEADS Anatoly Mikhailov, Deputy Chief Designer, Head of the Gas Dynamics Research Section, Russian Federal Nuclear Center   To continue a series of publications dedicated to the Russian Federal Nuclear Center All-Russia Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFYaTs-VNIIEF), and its role in the advanced development of conventional weapons, we shall focus on the Institute s gas dynamics research which constitutes a major aspect of warhead research development. The research in the field of gas dynamics, together with theoretical projections and computer modeling, help determine warhead physical configuration and its basic design....

Story Url: http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=LycosScience&storyId=52927Peacekeeping the Missiles This story is Newsmine™ enabled. [Turn off in-story linking]   Monday, June 03, 2002 8:47 a.m. EDT Newsmine Data •  Marshall Islands •  Cheyenne •  Vandenberg VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - An unarmed 70-foot Peacekeeper missile was launched early Monday in a routine test of the country's intercontinental ballistic missile system, the Air Force said. The 198,000-pound missile lifted off from the central California coast at 1:01 a.m. and sent nine unarmed re-entry vehicles toward a target 4,800 miles away on the Kwajalein Missile Range in the Marshall Islands  . The missile...