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US Air Force gives U-2 spy plane another lease on life
The aging U-2 spy plane of Cold War fame has avoided retirement and will stay in the air until 2025, the Air Force said Monday, because the costly drone due to replace it turned out to be less effective. As part of cost-saving measures announced by the Pentagon, officials concluded the U-2 jet — which [...]
US dismantles last big Cold War nuclear bomb
Technicians in Texas closed a chapter on the Cold War on Tuesday, dismantling the oldest, biggest and most powerful nuclear bomb in the US arsenal, officials said. The last B-53 bomb — built in 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis — was dismantled at the Pantex facility in Amarillo, the only place in [...]
Code War replacing Cold War: security experts
A US counterterrorism expert warned that the Cold War has given way to a “Code War” in which cyber weapons can be unleashed with devastating consequences. Nations will launch online attacks and extremist groups will add cyber attacks to their tactics, according to Cofer Black, who spent 28 years in the Central Intelligence Agency before [...]
New UK Minister Promises ‘Clean Break’ from ‘Cold War Mindset’
In a speech to the Royal United Services Institute in London this morning Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has said that the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) will make a clean break from the thinking of the past and will be ‘ruthless and without sentiment’. Dr Fox began by saying that the SDSR would [...]
British Cold War nuclear bunker up for sale on eBay
LONDON: A Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Britain has been put up for sale on online auction site eBay, and by Monday bidders had pushed the price up to 19,300 pounds (21,500 euros, 29,000 dollars). “A rare opportunity to acquire a piece of Cold War history,” read the sale advert on the website. “Set in [...]
E-4 commemorates 35 years on alert
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb: To say there have been a lot of changes in the past 35 years would be a bit of an understatement. To give a frame of reference, gas was roughly 50 cents a gallon, the Pittsburgh Steelers, who currently own six Super Bowl trophies, had yet to win their first, [...]
Two Koreas trade fire, Pyongyang vows no let up
SEOUL: North and South Korea traded artillery fire near their disputed sea border Wednesday and Pyongyang vowed to press on with live firing exercises, ratcheting up tensions anew between the Cold War foes. “Such firing drill by the units of the KPA will go on in the same waters in the future,” the (North) Korean [...]
India-US Military Relations Growing Rapidly
WASHINGTON: For decades, India mostly depended on, first, the Soviet Union and then Russia for its military supplies. But as the Cold War ended and India’s relations with the United States began improving during Bill Clinton’s presidency, New Delhi gradually increased its military cooperation with Washington. Both New Delhi and Washington have said their relationship [...]
Obama revamps Bush-era missile defense shield
Washington: In a major shift based on a reassessment of the threat from Iran, US President Barack Obama Thursday shelved plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe, the cause of a Cold War-style row with Russia. Obama decided to replace the shield, the brainchild of former US president George W. Bush, with a more [...]
