Word: nuclearization
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...McCain used the tests as a chance to press for an expanded missile defense system in Europe, with sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, an idea that is opposed by Russia. "Ballistic missile testing coupled with Iran's continued refusal to cease its nuclear activities should unite the international community in efforts to counter Iran's dangerous ambitions," said McCain. These comments come as Obama continues to plan an overseas trip, meant both to burnish his foreign policy credentials and disable some McCain's criticism that he hasn't had a first-hand assessment of the conditions...
...economy needs attention, too. During Musharraf's eight-year tenure, first as General, then as President, foreign direct investment rose, the Karachi stock exchange outperformed regional neighbors and GDP grew on average 7% a year. The lifting of international economic sanctions, imposed in 1998 when Pakistan tested its first nuclear bomb, was partially responsible for the boost, but Musharraf also privatized key industries and opened up the banking sector. The rapid growth, however, exposed cracks in infrastructure that was failing to keep up. "The economy has been good for big business, good for the per capita averages and good...
...Iran Saber-Rattling, Via TV Iran launched nine medium- and long-range missiles in a July 9 broadcast intended to prove that it could respond to an attack from the U.S. or Israel over its controversial nuclear program. The test, which officials said included a new version of Iran's Shahab-3 missile that can reach Israel and U.S. Gulf bases, came less than a day after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised that "there won't be any war" with either nation...
...Presumptive Republican nominee Arizona Sen. John McCain backs the proposal, while Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has been less supportive. What really matters isn't what either does - or what the Russians say - but what the Iranians do. The closer Tehran is believed to having a nuclear weapon, Pentagon officials say, the more necessary such a Euroshield becomes. Wednesday's tests, Rice said while traveling in Bulgaria, are "evidence that the missile threat is not an imaginary one." - With reporting by Eben Harrell/London
...well as other Eurasian nations. But Moscow has steadfastly declined to cooperate. Ever since the U.S. announced several years ago that it planned to spread its missile-defense system to Europe, Moscow has seen it as a ploy designed to emasculate its last remaining claim to superpower status: its nuclear might. In the two decades since the Soviet Union's demise, its slide into international irrelevancy has been slowed only by its nuclear arsenal and the recent rise in oil prices. While superpower tensions have eased considerably since the Cold War, both sides continue to keep hundreds of long-range...