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New Treaty Would Ban Space Weapons for Earthlings and ETs

It's a good thing the outer space battles in "Star Wars" happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away -- because under a new space-based weapons treaty drafted by aerospace and military experts, humans and aliens alike would be barred from waging war above Earth. The carefully prepared treaty invites all U.N. member...

US Envoy Backs UN View That Iran May Be Developing Nukes

VIENNA -- A senior U.S. envoy on Wednesday backed United Nations assessments that Iran may be continuing secret work on developing nuclear weapons, indirectly contradicting American intelligence estimates in the public domain that such activities stopped eight years ago. The comments by envoy Glyn Davies played off recent...

Russian Parliament Approves New Arms Control Treaty With US

The upper house of Russia's Parliament today approved the START nuclear arms control treaty at the heart of a new thaw in post-Cold-War relations between Moscow and Washington. The treaty, signed by U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev back in April, requires both countries to cut their...

2010: A Big Year for UFOs

Like a bad penny that keeps showing up, UFOs have been around on a regular basis from antiquity through modern day. And as 2010 unfolded, the UFO mythology was alive and well. Famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, the pope's astronomer, a high-ranking Italian politician and even the late Winston Churchill...

Swiss Official Wants 3 Charged With Nuke Smuggling

BERN, Switzerland -- A Swiss magistrate says smuggling charges should be brought against three Swiss engineers suspected of giving nuclear weapons technology to a rogue network in Pakistan - a case that has CIA ties, shredded documents and national security implications. The investigating magistrate, Andreas Mueller, said...

Background on nuclear weapons

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion.

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