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The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
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Published on October 5th, 2018 03:30
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.

October 4, 2018

In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its technology had helped stream the Olympic Games online, communicate
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China Tests Missile With 10 Warheads
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Published on February 2nd, 2017 22:32
China Tests Missile With 10 Warheads

January 31, 2017
By Bill Gertz

China flight tested a new variant of a long-range missile with 10 warheads in what defense officials say represents a dramatic shift in Beijing's strategic nuclear posture.

The flight test of the DF-5C missile was carried out earlier this month using 10 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs. The test of the inert warheads was monitored closely by U.S. intelligence agencies, said two officials familiar with reports of the missile test.

The missile was fired from the Taiyuan Space Launch Center in central China and flew to an impact range
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Russia Unveils RS-28 Sarmat 'Satan 2' Nuclear Missile
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Published on October 27th, 2016 04:54
Russia Unveils RS-28 Sarmat 'Satan 2' Nuclear Missile

October 26, 2016

Russia has declassified the first image of its new thermonuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.

The RS-28
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Pentagon: China Restructures for War
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Published on May 19th, 2016 01:44
Pentagon: China Restructures for War

Details of island building in S. China Sea disclosed

May 13, 2016
By Bill Gertz

China’s military underwent a major restructuring last year in a bid to prepare its military for conflict, the Pentagon said in its latest annual assessment of the Communist Party-controlled People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

The armed forces were reformed with new military regions, a new command structure, and updated strategies to better fight regional, high technology warfare, the 145-page report to Congress says.

“These reforms aim to strengthen the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) control over the military, enhance the PLA’s ability
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Russia Doubling Nuclear Warheads
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Published on April 4th, 2016 03:02
Russia Doubling Nuclear Warheads

New multiple-warhead missiles to break arms treaty limit

April 1, 2016
By Bill Gertz

Russia is doubling the number of its strategic nuclear warheads on new missiles by deploying multiple reentry vehicles that have put Moscow over the limit set by the New START arms treaty, according to Pentagon officials.

A recent intelligence assessment of the Russian strategic warhead buildup shows that the increase is the result of the addition of multiple, independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, on recently deployed road-mobile SS-27 and submarine-launched SS-N-32 missiles, said officials familiar with reports of the
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Russian Army Forming 3 New Divisions And 5 New Nuclear Missile Regiments In 2016
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Published on February 9th, 2016 06:49
Russian Army Forming 3 New Divisions And 5 New Nuclear Missile Regiments In 2016

January 12, 2016

Russian servicemen equip an Iskander tactical missile system at the Army-2015 international
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Russia Could Overrun The Baltic States In THREE DAYS: US War Planners Say
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Published on February 4th, 2016 23:56
Russia Could Overrun The Baltic States In THREE DAYS: US War Planners Say NATO Has Been Caught Napping And Would Be Hopelessly Outgunned

February 3, 2016

Russia could overrun Eastern Europe in just three days because NATO has not been bolstering its fleet since Vladimir Putin took Crimea, according to US military predictions.

Testing every possible scenario in a series of war games, a US military think tank has concluded it would take a resurgent Russia between 36 and
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