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...operate in the U.S. after it was the source of sensitive technology reaching foreign powers does raise serious concerns," a high-level U.S. nuclear security administrator told TIME, the first public comment by a federal official on the proposed plant's ownership. "The national security community or the new Homeland Security Department will need to look at this...
...More than 750 years later, veteran travel writer Stanley Stewart journeyed to their homeland in search of the modern-day descendants of those marauding hordes. As he recounts in his highly enjoyable travelogue, In the Empire of Genghis Khan, he eventually found the Great Khan's heirs. And they were usually drunk...
...even the suggestion that Japan take up arms?for virtually any reason?was taboo. As late as 1978, Joint Staff Council Chairman Hiromi Kurisu was sacked for his seemingly reasonable comment that the country's military?pointedly called the Self-Defense Force (SDF) might take "extralegal" measures if the homeland ever came under surprise attack. Any Japanese politician who so much as suggested amending the pacifist clause of the constitution was effectively committing career suicide. Shinichi Kitaoka, a law professor and diplomatic history expert at the University of Tokyo, says the government "long ago decided that its hold on power...
Since China opened its doors to the West in 1978, thousands of Chinese intellectuals have left their homeland for the West in search of higher education, political asylum, freedom or the pursuit of happiness. Among them, there is no shortage of authors...
...onto its missiles. But if they do, the danger is great. Pyongyang wields a huge stash of short-and medium-range missiles, including at least 100 Nodong missiles capable of striking Japan. U.S. intelligence officials say Pyongyang wants to become the first rogue state capable of striking the U.S. homeland with a missile. In 1998 the North Koreans test-fired a three-stage Taepo Dong-1 rocket that landed in the Pacific Ocean. The Pentagon believes that North Korea is developing an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Taepo Dong-2, that could reach Alaska, Hawaii and possibly California. The North Koreans...