Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
October 2010 - United States Special Weapons News
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- No Significant Threat From Missile Glitch, Officials Say AFPS 27 Oct 2010 -- The public was never endangered when launch control center lost communication with ballistic missiles Oct. 23.
- US Investigates Nuclear Missile Incident VOA 27 Oct 2010 -- The U.S. military is looking into an incident in which it lost communications with 50 long-range nuclear-armed missiles based in the northern United States.
- KCNA and US Plan for "World without Nuclear Weapons" KCNA 26 Oct 2010 -- The US conducted the sub-critical nuclear test under the pretence of "guaranteeing the stability of nuclear arsenal."
- UK nuclear deterrent totally dependent on US IRNA 25 Oct 2010 -- London mayor Boris Johnson: To claim that Britain's Trident nuclear missile system is independent is a "complete fiction."
- KCNA and Nuclear Threat KCNA 24 Oct 2010 -- Documents proving the facts that the United States has attempted to use nuclear weapons against the DPRK for several decades were disclosed recently.
- KCNA Blasts US Anti-DPRK Nuclear Policy KCNA 23 Oct 2010 -- It was recently confirmed through declassified documents of the US persistently examined and planned the use of nuclear weapons against the DPRK.
- No secret arrangements between Russia, U.S. over arms cuts - Lavrov RIA Novosti 21 Oct 2010 -- Russia and the United States do not have any secret arrangements concerning the arms reduction treaty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
- Russia, U.S. propose UN General Assembly resolution on arms cuts RIA Novosti 16 Oct 2010 -- Russia and the United States have submitted to the UN General Assembly a draft resolution on strategic arms reduction based on the new Russian-U.S. arms cuts treaty.
- NATO rejects German demands for removal of US nukes IRNA 09 Oct 2010 -- NATO has rejected German demands for the removal of American nuclear weapons on its soil, the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel said in a report on Saturday.
- CMA Reaches 80 Percent Chemical Weapons Destruction Mark Army News 05 Oct 2010 -- The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) announced today that on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010, they achieved the destruction of 80 percent of the U.S. chemical agent stockpile since Entry-Into-Force, when the United States ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty in April 1997.
- Lockheed Martin Receives $106 Million Contract for Next-generation ICBM Reentry Field Support Equipment Lockheed Martin 06 Oct 2010 -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that it has received a $106 million engineering, manufacturing and development contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation to develop the next-generation Reentry Field Support Equipment (RFSE) for the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system.
- U.S. administration seeks soonest ratification of arms treaty with Russia RIA Novosti 06 Oct 2010 -- The U.S. administration has been pressing for the soonest ratification of a new strategic arms reduction deal with Russia, a U.S. assistant secretary of state said in her speech to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly.
- Medvedev, Obama discuss new START ratification RIA Novosti 01 Oct 2010 -- Russian President Medvedev and his US counterpart Barack Obama discussed the process of ratifying the new arms reduction treaty.
- Clinton urges Senate to ratify treaty after mid-term elections RIA Novosti 01 Oct 2010 -- US Secretary of State Clinton urged the Senate to ratify a new arms treaty with Russia after the November 2 elections.
- Global Strike command reaches full operational capability AFNS 01 Oct 2010 -- Officials declared Air Force Global Strike Command to be at full operational capability Sept. 30.
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