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South Korea’s Institute for National Security Strategy, a government-sponsored think tank, said North Korea will be able to fire a intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the U.S. mainland by 2020.
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Russia carried out another test of its Nudol anti-satellite weapon on Dec. 16 and that was the third successful flight out of five tests so far.
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An anonymous U.S. military official said North Korea is now able to put a nuclear warhead atop of a missile, however, Pyongyang is not sure whether the warhead can survive re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere.
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An unclassified report produced by a blue-ribbon panel of experts for the U.S. Air Force Studies Board at the National Academies of Science warns the Pentagon that both China and Russia are ahead in the race to develop hypersonic weapons.
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Reports from Russia say the new Barguzin rail-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) complex has carried out its first pop-up test with success.
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