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debka.com Not since 1984, just before the fall of the Soviet Union, has Russia ventured to launch dozens of nuclear bombers for an exercise in which Tu-95 Bear bombers will fire live cruise missiles. Exercise Stability 2008 will take place Oct.-6-12 over sub-Arctic Russia uncomfortably close to the US state of Alaska, and Belarus.

Brazilian longings for a nuclear sub has gone for decades. Now and with the assistance of France, it would be able to make such project true. Brasilia expects to sign a military... read more

France to help Brazil build nuclear submarine September 23rd, 2008 - 5:52 pm ICT by IANS - Rio de Janeiro, Sep 23 (RIA Novosti) France will help Brazil build a nuclear-powered submarine to protect vast oil reserves off its coast, the Brazilian defence minister said Tuesday.

Iran's fleet has the capacity to inflict crippling damages on any US vessels in the Persian Gulf, a French newspaper reports, PressTV reported. In an article in Le Figaro published on Wednesday, George Malbrunot has written that Iran has a tactical defense scheme in the Persian Gulf to implement against any possible US attack.

Where the buck stops with Fannie, Freddie Economic news - CNNMoney.com Wed, 09/10/2008 - 13:41 During the Vietnam War, James Lockhart served as a naval officer aboard a nuclear submarine, the USS George Washington Carver. His job these days might be even more explosive.

The cover of Cabinet magazine’s 30th issue caught my eye tonight while on my first Powell’s browsing jaunt in ages. Namely, a small sailboat floating through an aged and darkening tunnel. A few years ago I tracked a similar image to it’s original source — a pictorial of a de-comissioned soviet nuclear submarine shelter and shots by the folks exploring it.

Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world.

SSD drives are said to take over storage solutions in the future, so that begs the question - will hard drives be driven to extinction? Western Digital doesn’t think so as they are busy working on a new 20,000 rpm Raptor hard drive.

Russian nuclear submarines in training start-up of ballistic missiles in the Arctic Ocean. NATO apparently derived the name ‘Typhoon’ from a 1974 speech by Leonid Brezhnev which mentioned a new SSBN called the “Tayfun”. In fact, the Russian name for the class is “Akula” — “Shark”.

Investigative journalist Charley James offers this detailed opinion piece looking at the growing possibilty of US military action in Iran. By Charley James After being quietly notified by officials in Dick Cheney’s office, Kuwait – situated between Iraq, Iran and an un-enviable geographic hard