Don Shepperd, a CNN military analyst, said the new weapon is not a fuel-air explosive but works on a similar principle.

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Investors had been further spooked by an explosive bubble in the uranium market, the metal used to fuel nuclear reactors.

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Mr. Gates scrapped much of the Army's multibillion dollar Future Combat Systems, after it became clear that its lighter, faster, more fuel-efficient vehicles would not do much to protect soldiers from the threat of improvised explosive devices.

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