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Friday's successful advanced missile defense test, which shot down a mock nuclear warhead in space, shows that the US is getting closer to defending the country against ballistic missile attack.
Our government, the catalyst for innovations from nuclear fission and space exploration to the Internet, faces tough strategic choices if we are to maintain our position as the world's innovation hub.
What if some day a rogue state--or even a traditionally friendly country turned enemy--decides to set off a nuclear device in space that results in an electromagnetic pulse destroying our ability to communicate?
But we also need to acquire and perfect the technology to detonate a nuclear explosion in space that would be sufficiently powerful to alter a huge object's course and send it into unpopulated space.
If used to detonate nuclear weapons in space over targeted nations, such missiles could unleash electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) attacks, resulting in widespread destruction of electrical grids and what a congressional commission has described as the "catastrophic" disruption of civilizations reliant upon them.
We will deepen our ongoing cooperation in frontier areas of science and technology, nuclear power, and space.
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Many green issues highlight the secretive, careless or incompetent habits, past and present, of the nuclear industries, the space agency, the armed forces and big business.
The committee said sudden fluctuations in the magnetic field caused by weather in space or nuclear attack, could wipe out electricity and GPS, used by the military and financial markets.
In fact, with the sharp decline in Russian hard currency earnings, the role of arms, space and nuclear exports has undoubtedly increased in importance as has access to various forms of Western financing.
And watch out for the International Development Committee's report on whether the UK should continue to provide development aid to India - a country which critics point out has its own space and nuclear weapons programmes.
The official said the U.S. and Russia already benefit from satellites in space that monitor nuclear weapons facilities.
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We have agreed on steps to expand our cooperation in space, civil nuclear defense and other high-end sectors.
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Rather, the purchase or indigenous production of advanced fifth-generation stealth aircraft, nuclear submarines, anti-ship and other ballistic missiles, new generations of nuclear and conventional forces, space weapons, etc.
Direct ascent interceptors such as exo-atmospheric ABM missiles, ballistic missiles with modified guidance logic, space boosters carrying nuclear payloads, and homing vehicles such as the miniature vehicle system undergoing development by the United States.
Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.
The idea was to examine and make recommendations relating to the longterm strategic requirements for U.S. national security, and that included nuclear deterrent, missile defense, space security, etc.
If Russians could get a rocket ship into space, and lead on nuclear weaponry, what else could their scientists pull off?
In 1963, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in space and underwater.
Defence officials say that because the system will be able to shoot down missiles in space, it could cause nuclear and chemical warheads to disintegrate safely.
North Korea characterizes the satellite launch as a peaceful bid to explore space, but says the nuclear test was meant as a deliberate warning to Washington.
Dr Stern and his colleagues used the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (Nustar) space telescope to examine the X-rays coming out of the black hole candidates spotted by Wise, presenting their findings in a paper to appear in Astrophysical Journal.
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First, under the Clinton administration, some countries demanded that fissile-materials negotiations include formal talks on nuclear disarmament and a ban on weapons in space.
Three to five nuclear bombs of any size, launched into space on satellites and detonated above the US, Europe and Asia would send Western civilization back to the 19th century.
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If that missile were armed with even a relatively small and crude nuclear weapon and that warhead were detonated in space high over the United States, it would unleash large quantities of gamma rays.
As most of you know, The Avengers ended with Tony Stark and his Avenger pals heading off an alien invasion in downtown New York, an attempt which culminated in Tony taking a near-fatal flight into deep space in order to dispose of a nuclear bomb.
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Mr Gates wants a regular forum at which the two sides discuss issues such as nuclear weapons, missile defence, cyber-warfare and space.
It would leave the international community with some breathing space in its efforts to stem Iran's nuclear advance.
The need to acquire as much information as possible before acting in a crisis situation also explains why the United States is currently orbiting a new generation of space-based infrared satellites that can detect missile launches and nuclear detonations within seconds after they occur.
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In the space of a year, Kim Jong Un has struck a nuclear and missile moratorium with the United States (the so-called "Leap Day" deal), quickly abandoned that agreement, launched two long-range rockets in contravention of international law, and now is prepared for a third nuclear test at the Punggye-ri nuclear test facility in the northeast.
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