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Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the American-backed Iraqi army, current and former U.S. officials say.

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	Category	Satellites, Surveillance Technology
	Keywords in Satellites	Spy Satellites
	Keywords	Spy Satellites

Some researchers are working on autonomous spacecraft, airships and rovers that can cooperate intelligently while exploring distant worlds.

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	Category	Artificial Life, Space Expansion

The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth?

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	Category	Physics
	Keywords in Physics	Supercolliders
	Keywords	Supercolliders

A Canadian satellite, the Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite, is designed specifically as an early warning system to pinpoint asteroids on a collision course with Earth. It will also detect space junk in the path of other orbiting satellites to prevent crashes that could shut down telecommunications - television, telephone, GPS and banking systems - around the globe.

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	Category	Asteroid Defense
	Keywords in Asteroid Defense	Space Debris, Space Tracking
	Keywords	Space Debris, Space Tracking

In recently passed H.R.6063, The U.S. House of Representatives would direct the NASA Administrator to develop plans for a low-cost space mission to rendezvous with the Apophis asteroid and attach a tracking device.

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	Category	Asteroid Defense
	Keywords in Asteroid Defense	Asteroid Tracking
	Keywords	Asteroid Tracking

International compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) can be routinely monitored, a group of U.S. biopharmaceutical industry experts said yesterday in a report challenging some core tenets of the Bush administration opposition to a formal inspections mechanism.

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	Category	Biological Warfare
	Keywords in Biological Warfare	Arms Control, Verification
	Keywords	Arms Control, Verification

The Defense Intelligence Agency is worried that terrorists will be able to launch crude missile attacks (similar to China's test last year) against U.S. satellites by 2020. However, the article offers a few good reasons to doubt the intelligence communities track record on assessing military space threats.

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	Category	Space Warfare
	Keywords in Space Warfare	Terrorism
	Keywords	Terrorism

Global warming is likely to have a series of destabilizing effects around the world, causing humanitarian crises as well as surges in ethnic violence and illegal immigration, according to an assessment released Wednesday by U.S. intelligence agencies.

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	Keywords	Global Warming

A U.S. program to promote nuclear energy around the world without increasing the threat of proliferation would instead raise the likelihood that additional nations or terrorists might acquire a devastating weapon according to nonproliferation experts.

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	Category	Nuclear Proliferation, Energy
	Keywords in Nuclear Proliferation	Nuclear Power
	Keywords	Nuclear Power

Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded. The document addresses fears that the Large Hadron Collider is so energetic, it could have unforeseen consequences.

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	Category	Physics
	Keywords in Physics	Supercolliders
	Keywords	Supercolliders

A U.S. general said Sunday he sees nations such as Iran and North Korea racing to produce ICBMs that could carry nuclear warheads.

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	Category	Missile Defense, Nuclear Proliferation
	Keywords in Missile Defense	Ballistic Missile Threat
	Keywords	Ballistic Missile Threat

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