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Pentagon to soon deploy pint-sized but lethal Switchblade drones

U.S. Drones

Seeking to reduce civilian casualties and collateral damage, the Pentagon will soon deploy a new generation of drones the size of model planes, packing tiny explosive warheads that can be delivered with pinpoint accuracy

 

64 missile warheads stolen from Romanian train

64 missile warheads stolen from Romanian train

Authorities investigating the theft of 64 missile warheads from a train transporting military equipment to Bulgaria sought to reassure the public Monday that the components are no danger to the public.

 

U.S. says nuclear arsenal includes 5,113 warheads

The United States disclosed for the first time on Monday the overall size of its nuclear arsenal, saying it had a total of 5,113 warheads operationally deployed, kept in active reserve and held in inactive storage.

 

U.S. Push for New Class of Weapons Alarms Russia

The new weapons system is designed to hurl a conventional warhead of enormous weight at high speed and with pinpoint accuracy, without crossing the nuclear threshold.

 

U.S. developing new non-nuclear missiles

U.S. developing new non-nuclear missiles

As the White House pushes for cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, the Pentagon is developing a weapon to help fill the gap: missiles armed with conventional warheads that could strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour.

 

IAEA: Iran may be working on warhead

IAEA: Iran may be working on warhead

Iran began enriching uranium to a level at which it can sustain a nuclear reaction before United Nations inspectors arrived to monitor the process, and in defiance of a specific request that it not so do, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday.

 

Diplomats: Iran's enrichment program stagnates

Diplomats: Iran's enrichment program stagnates

Iran's output of enriched uranium is stagnating, diplomats said Tuesday, suggesting the country may be running short the material needed for producing nuclear fuel or the fissile core of warheads.

 

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