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U.S. uses Spy Satellites to Spy on Iraqi Army, -- Greg Miller  -- Los Angeles Times  -- July 02, 2008

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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The Future of Space Robots -- Jeremy Hsu  -- Space.com  -- July 02, 2008

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

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Some Fear Debut of Powerful Atom-Smasher -- Staff  -- CNN  -- June 30, 2008

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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A Canadian Gadget that May Save the World -- Dawn Walton  -- Globe and Mail  -- June 27, 2008

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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NASA Authorization Bill Mandates Plan for Asteroid Warning and Deflection -- Staff  -- KurzweilAI.net  -- June 27, 2008

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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* RANDOM * Experts Say Biological Weapons Ban Can Be Monitored -- David Ruppe  -- Global Security Newswire  -- November 18, 2004

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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Terrorists Ready to Launch Satellite Strikes by 2020 -- Noah Schachtman  -- Danger Room  -- June 26, 2008

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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Climate Change Likely to Trigger Global Destabilization -- Greg Miller  -- Los Angeles Times  -- June 26, 2008

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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Nuclear Power Program Boosts Proliferation Threat, Experts Argue -- Chris Schneidmiller  -- Global Security Newswire  -- June 24, 2008

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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Earth 'Not at Risk' from Collider -- Paul Rincon  -- BBC News  -- June 23, 2008

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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Nations Race to Produce ICBMs, U.S. General Says -- Staff  -- Global Security Newswire  -- June 17, 2008

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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