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Can We Rule Out a New Pearl Harbour?

By Konstantin PENZEV (Russia)

10. August 2011

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Can We Rule Out a New Pearl Harbour?

Most people have heard of Pearl Harbor, especially after the Hollywood movie of the same name came out. Yes, The film in which the charming Kate Beckinsale plays nurse Evelyn Johnson. But I’m sure you’re familiar with that blockbuster. Everybody in Hollywood seems to drink, smoke, snort a few, get married and divorced, and then [...]

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Sowing the Wind

By Konstantin PENZEV (Russia)

29. March 2011

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Sowing the Wind

The radioactive dust had not yet settled after the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant when Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan gave a speech saying it was inappropriate to compare the crisis at Fukushima-1 with the accident at Chernobyl in 1986. He said the amounts of radiation released then and now are not comparable, [...]

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Japan and India: Coming Together For a Multipolar Asia

14. January 2011

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Japan and India:  Coming Together For a Multipolar Asia

By Rupakjyoti Borah (India) In a significant development that went largely unnoticed, India agreed to speed up the mining of its rare earth reserves during the visit of its Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Japan between October 24-26, 2010 for the annual bilateral summit. Rare earth materials find application in various niche areas like petroleum [...]

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Is Guam Ready to Accept the US Military Bases from Okinawa?

1. October 2010

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Is Guam Ready to Accept the US Military Bases from Okinawa?

Sofya Pale (Russia) With a meeting between US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan held on September 23, the media has begun saying that one of the main topics of discussion was the transfer of one third of the US military bases on the Japanese island of Okinawa to another less exotic [...]

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Hiroshima 65 Years Later

9. August 2010

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Hiroshima 65 Years Later

Alexander Dobrovolsky (Russia) Sixty five years have passed since Aug 6, 1945 when the American B-29 flown by Air Force Colonel Paul Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima. According to various estimates, it exploded with an energy equivalent to 15-18 thousand pounds of TNT, about 2000 times greater than any [...]

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