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TORONTO -- A Toronto man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to export nuclear technology to Iran. Mahmoud Yadegari, a Canadian citizen, was to appear in court this morning to face federal customs charges but he may face additional charges for violating a United Nations embargo. Mr. Yadegari attempted to "procure and export" pressure transducers used in the production of enriched uranium, the RCMP said in a statement this morning. He was allegedly purchasing the materials in the United States, and sending it to Dubai but the end destination was Iran, said RCMP Sgt. Marc Laporte. While enriched uranium is...

THE US navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them. The ships would be equipped with arrays of 360 transducers each 1 metre square - effectively big flat-panel loudspeakers - running along either side of the hull below the waterline. When the ship's sonar detects an incoming torpedo, the transducers simultaneously fire an acoustic shock wave of such intensity that the torpedo either detonates early or is disabled by the pulse's crushing force, according to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is funding...