korea. and traveled over 600 kilometer trajectory. i m joined by will ripley in taipei. yet another missile fired by north korea, real flurry of them this year. we re learning disturbing things about this one. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, kim. you just talked about the fact that the maximum altitude of this missile was only 60 kilometers. that s less than 40 miles. it could literally be launched from a submarine along the coastline of japan, of south korea hypothetically and would fly under the radar and be essentially impossible for existing missile defense systems to shoot down or certainly very difficult. and this is the kind of missile that could be launched by surprise. that is the nature of submarine warfare, even though north korean warfares are diesel, loud, relatively easy to detect, unlike the united states nuclear submarine fleet far more silent and stealthy. one of the reasons the u.s. navy
The new nuclear submarine fleet under the AUKUS partnership is expected to cost Australia as much as 171 billion Australian dollars (USD 121.7 billion) and will not be deployed for at least two decades, according to a report.
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The two-reactor Metsamor nuclear power plant, a one-of-a-kind facility in the South Caucasus, is thought to be the most dangerous
Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear power plant poses a real threat to people in neighboring Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia, and southern Europe, according to Brenda Shaffer, an international energy and foreign policy specialist and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. In an article published last week in the US’s The Bulletin magazine, Shaffer made her case for why Armenia’s outdated nuclear plant should be closed permanently. “By closing Metsamor, Armenia would not only contribute to the safety of its own citizens and those in neighboring countries but strengthen peace in the South Caucasus,” Shaffer wrote.
and this young man, vladimir putin, experienced his first serious political crisis at home. it was the nuclear submarine disaster. the pride of russia s nuclear submarine fleet, the 13,000 ton kursk is dead in the water. part of a northern fleet exercise designed to counter american warships. the kursk radios for permission to pyre torpedos and then silence. the sub is located an estimated 480 feet deep on the sea floor. according to russian naval spokesman, its crew videotaped in port this may could still be alive. the head of the russians navy tonight saying oxygen will run out friday, situation critical. vladimir putin s government waited a full day and a half
amounts of snow, but this year is different. megyn: this year is different, isn t it? don t you feel it where you live? thankfully, no one was hurt in that collapse. new fallout from a stunning claim in a british newspaper. the daily telegraph that president obama agreed to give the russian government top secret information about britain s nuclear submarine fleet. why would he do that? the claim was that it was in order to get the russians to sign off on the nuclear arms reduction treaty. the telegraph claims it is laid out in the diplomatic cables being released by wikileaks. the state department denies the report, but we re hearing that folks in england are noir yus nonetheless. stu varney joins me now with what they re saying across the pond. so the telegraph not a