Posted on Dec. 29th The government has officially decided to drastically revise the nation’s so-called three principles on arms exports, which would make it possible for Japan to participate in the development and production of military equipment with other countries, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Tuesday. The announcement by the chief government spokesman came [...]

Posted on Nov 30th Russian envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin will visit China and Iran in mid-January to discuss a U.S.-backed global missile defense network. “We are planning to visit both Beijing and Tehran soon under the Russian president’s directive, to discuss the planned deployment of a global missile defense network,” Rogozin said during a [...]

Posted on Nov 30th North Korea said yesterday that uranium enrichment and construction of a nuclear power-plant was “progressing apace”, increasing concerns that the country is working to build an atomic weapon. A foreign ministry statement added that North Korea had a sovereign right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and that “neither concession nor compromise [...]

Posted on Nov 16th HAGATNA, Guam, Nov. 16 (UPI) — A decision on the location of controversial Marine Corps machine gun and grenade ranges on Guam has been delayed at least two more years, the U.S. Navy said. The U.S. Navy, in a court brief filed Tuesday in federal court in Hawaii, said it will [...]

Posted on Nov 11th North Korea’s latent nuclear weapons program is rightfully the main point of concern for its neighbors and the international community. But far less publicized is Pyongyang’s ongoing efforts to build upon its capabilities to produce and maintain chemical and biological weapons (CBW). North Korea’s expansion of these programs is no secret [...]

Posted on Nov 9th ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Nov. 6 angrily rejected a report that it had been moving its nuclear weapons in unsafe conditions, saying nobody should underestimate its capability to defend itself. Two U.S. magazines reported that Pakistan has begun moving its nuclear weapons in low-security vans on congested roads to hide them from [...]

Posted on Nov 9th NAHA (Kyodo) — Ministers dealing with issues involving U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture are expected to visit Okinawa this month for talks with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima over the planned relocation of a key U.S. base within the prefecture, state and local government officials said Tuesday. Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa [...]

Posted on Nov 2nd BRUSSELS - The world is heading for “a new era of global nuclear force modernisation and growth” despite anti-proliferation rhetoric in the US and EU, a new study says. The survey by the London and Washington-based think-tank, the British American Security Information Council (Basic), notes that every one of the world’s nine nuclear [...]

Posted on Oct 26th An inert non-nuclear B53 training weapon is displayed during an event commemorating the dismantling of the final B53 nuclear bomb Tuesday at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. The B53 nuclear bomb was made to deliver a 9-megaton blast about 600 times more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima in [...]

Posted on Oct 25th The US Navy is planning to retire nine Ticonderoga-class cruisers and three Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships (LSDs) in Fiscal Years 2013 (FY13) and 2014 as austerity measures hit the Department of Defense (DoD). In an internal email obtained by Jane’s , navy budget planners have listed the ships that are earmarked for [...]