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Golden Dome dangers: An arms control expert explains how Trump’s missile defense threatens to make the US less safe
Golden Dome is meant to protect the U.S. from ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles, and missiles launched from space. Trump has called for the missile defense to be fully operational before the ...
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12 Shows Like Andor You Must See
A Star Wars Story,’ ‘Andor’ is an adventure drama set in the ‘Star Wars’ universe created by George Lucas. A direct prequel ...
Kari Lake won awards for overseas reporting. Now she has the job of cutting it.
Kari Lake won TV news Emmys years ago for work she did in Cambodia, one of the countries affected by sweeping layoffs at ...
US made a terrible mistake when it deported this Chinese rocket scientist
Dr Qian returned to China and immediately persuaded Mao Zedong to put him to work building a modern weapons program ...
Resisting Chinese colonialism: East Turkistan’s struggle to restore its independence
China’s occupation of East Turkistan has been ongoing for seventy-five years, but the resistance of the East Turkistani ...
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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashes back to Earth, disappearing into Indian Ocean after 53 years in orbit
After 53 years stuck in space, a Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus has finally crash-landed back on Earth. The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly ...
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A failed Soviet-era spacecraft likely crashed back to Earth overnight
The Soviet Union’s Space Research Institute, or IKI, ran a groundbreaking Venus exploration program amid the 20th century space race. Venera, as the program was called, sent a series of probes ...
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Will the US respond to AI rivals in the same way it took on Soviet Union in the space race?
On October 4th, 1957, radios picked up a faint beep drifting down from space. The Soviet Union had launched Sputnik ... to regain initiative in the space race, had reorientated US science ...
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Putin Heaps Praise On Musk, Compares Him To Soviet Union Space Hero
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lauded SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, likening him to Sergei Korolev, a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet ... during the space race with the US in ...
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
[5] In June 1984, Velikhov published a critique of the feasibility of space weapons ... to reform the Soviet Union and its foreign policy, advocating a policy of “glasnost” [openness]. His first ...
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Space isn’t all about the ‘race’ – rival superpowers must work together for a better future
Lunar missions have become synonymous with a “space race”. During the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union’s competition to achieve that first “one small step” on the Moon was a symbolic ...
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How the CIA 'kidnapped' a Soviet moon probe during the space race
Credit: Keystone/Getty Images The space race between the United States and the former Soviet Union was in full acceleration mode during late 1950, cascading into the1960s. That two-country contest ...