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Strange news story from the weekend about how the singer of the hit 'Beautiful' prevented a 'World War III' situation when he was a soldier.
Blunt and his troops were ordered to take an airbase, but found 200 Russian solider had taken the base first, it was then an order from US Gen Wesley Clark told the Blunt and NATO troops to overpower them.
"He said he had been "party to the conversation" between senior officers in which Gen Clark had ordered the attack.
"We had 200 Russians lined up pointing their weapons at us aggressively, which was... and you know we'd been told to reach the airfield and take a hold of it."-BBC
The event is mentioned in war memoirs, since the troops took the orders from Gen Mike Jackson who remarked he didn't want his soldiers to start WW3. The NATO instead surrounded the airbase and later shared it with the Russian troops. Though Blunt stated he would have ignored Clark's order (if Jackson didn't intervene) and risked a court marshal.Strange news story from the weekend about how the singer of the hit... more
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Reuters reports that President Barack Obama is currently seeking $80 billion to upgrade the United States’ nuclear weapons system.Reuters reports that President Barack Obama is currently seeking $80 billion to... more
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On May 2cnd, thousands of protesters rallied and marched in New York City, calling for an end to all nuclear weapons.On May 2cnd, thousands of protesters rallied and marched in New York City, calling for... more
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US military planners have won President Obama’s support for a new generation of high-speed weapons that are intended to strike anywhere on Earth within an hour.
Obama’s interest in Prompt Global Strike (or PGS), a nonnuclear weapons program, has alarmed China and Russia and complicated nuclear arms reduction negotiations.US military planners have won President Obama’s support for a new generation of... more
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Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Ali Shami slammed the position taken by the United States following Israeli claims that Syria transferred Scud missiles to Hezbollah.Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Ali Shami slammed the position taken by the United... more
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Iran plans to lodge a complaint with the United Nations about what it sees as President Obama's threat to attack it with nuclear weapons.Iran plans to lodge a complaint with the United Nations about what it sees as... more
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to abruptly cancel a trip to a nuclear conference in Washington has spotlighted a key sore point in international nonproliferation efforts: Israel's own atomic weapons.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to abruptly cancel a trip to... more
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Hundreds of powerful US bunker-buster bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.Hundreds of powerful US bunker-buster bombs are being shipped from California to the... more
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A three-party meeting between Syrian president Bashar al Assad, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is reported to have been a war council to devise counterattack plans and assign tasks in the event of an Israeli offensive on one or all parties.A three-party meeting between Syrian president Bashar al Assad, Iranian president... more
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