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Magyarország
2017. IV. 19. A legteljesebb mértékben a nyilvánosságra tartozik, hogy mikor született meg az a stratégia, mely mintegy észrevétlenül, a demokratikus hagyományok, a demokratikus gondolkodás hiányosságait kihasználva, módszeresen terelte be az ország lakóit egy politikai rezervátumba. Ebből pedig kitörni, levegőhöz jutni, a közállapotokkal szemben intaktnak maradni szinte már csak a határok átlépésével vagy bezárkózással lehet. Azért most, mert a gyerekeink generációja most lép be a politikai térbe, most lépnek ki a közélet fórumaira. 2004. április 5-én ülést tartott a frakció a képviselői irodaház VII. emeleti előadójában, melyre együtt érkezett a párt elnöke, Habony, Gyürk és még egy személy, akit nem ismertem. Egy nagymintás szociológiai felmérés, közvélemény-kutatás vezetőjeként mutatták be. Gyürk frakciótársunk a 2004. júniusi európai parlamenti választásra való felkészülés miatt ült az elnöki asztalhoz. Őt kérte fel a párt elnöke a kampányfőnöki teendők ellátására. Habony addig nem volt ismert a frakció előtt. Nem lehetett tudni, miért van jelen. A frakcióülés igazi jelentőségét a Fidesz megbízásából készült nagymintás felmérés ismertetése és az annak eredményeiből következő jövőbeni pártstratégia meghatározása adta. A párt elnöke pontokba szedte mondanivalóját Legfontosabb, legsúlyosabb mondatai, üzenetei a következők voltak: A jövőben nem mi mondjuk meg, hogy kire kell szavazni, hanem megkérdezzük az embereket. Nem a polgárokat, hanem az embereket. A felmérés szerint a Fidesz megosztotta az országot, nem viseli a vereséget. A cél az averzió lebontása, aminek érdekében a baloldalról és az elégedetlen anyagi helyzetűek közül kell meríteni. A jobboldal-baloldal felosztás értelmezhetetlen. A határon túli magyarok és a népességfogyás ügye egyre nehezebben kommunikálható, egyre kevésbé hasznos témák. Összességében megállapítható, hogy a Kádár-rendszer győzött, megnyerte a rendszerváltoztatást. Ebből következően baloldali véleményvezéreket kell beemelni a Fidesz mellé, szerepeltetni kell őket. A jövőben a gazdasági problémák, a hétköznapi gondok, az eladósodottság, a bizonytalanság és a félelem fogalmait, életérzéseit kell témává tenni, majd rendre ismétlődő sulykolással napirenden tartani. A pártelnök azt is világossá tette, hogy "a Kádár-rendszer győzött" következtetésre épített jövőbeni pártstratégia képviselete a frakcióülésről való távozás után életbe lép. Állva, de árván marad a polgár. (Forrás: mno)
2017. IV. 19. Korábbi vélekedésekkel szemben nem fenyeget az Alstom-ügy büntetőjogi elévülése. Egy átlagos állampolgárral szemben a vezető beosztású hivatalos személy által elkövetett vesztegetés esetében akár 10 év börtönt is kiszabhat a bíróság, az elévülési idő is ilyen hosszú lehet, ráadásul többször újra is indulhat. Medgyessy egykori szocialista kormányfő a metrókocsi-beszerzések idején hivatalosan utazó nagykövet - "Magyarország lobbistája" - volt, de ezzel párhuzamosan az Alstom járműipari cégtől kapott jó tanácsaiért 180 millió forintot. A büntető törvénykönyvben vezető beosztású hivatalos személy által kötelességszegéssel elkövetett vesztegetés esetében a minősítéseket is figyelembe véve a maximálisan kiszabható szabadságvesztés 10 év, az ügy elévülési ideje a büntetési tétel felső határa. (Forrás: MagyarIdők)
2017. IV. 16. A mából visszanézve, Soros támogatása felért egy halálos öleléssel. Kifacsarta és a maga képére formálta az egyetemét is, ahogy a politikai baloldallal is tette. Először a magukat liberálisoknak nevező SZDSZ tűnt el a magyar politikai palettáról, most pedig az egykori szocialisták megmaradása is kérdésessé vált. De még mindig nem értik, milyen következményekkel jár Lendvainak, a Magyar Szocialista Párt egykori elnökének kinyilatkoztatása: „Az ellenzék Soros oldalán áll.” Nem értik, hogy az a politikus, aki sorosistává válik, megpecsételi a sorsát. Soros idős ember, augusztus 12-én lesz 87 éves. Megélte a Holokausztot, amiről egy helyen azt nyilatkozta: „1944 életem legboldogabb időszaka volt. Nagyon pozitív élmény volt. Hittem magamban, hittem apámban, és tudtam, nem történhet velem semmi.” Nem történt. Egy világbirodalmat gründolt össze a baloldal sírásója. (Forrás: LátószögBlog): https://tinyurl.com/ldctabv
2017. IV. 11. Szakálla volt gender. Ott tartunk tehát, hogy mindazok a lelki és mentális defektusok, amelyeknek normális esetben csak annyi közük volna a tudományhoz, hogy az elmekórtan számára nyújtanak kimeríthetetlen vizsgálódási lehetőséget, mára beteg rögeszmék és cinikus anyagi, valamint hatalmi érdekek gigantikus, világméretű emberkísérletének elszabadult eszközeivé váltak. Magyarországon és általában Közép-Európában azonban még tartja hadállásait – bár habzó szájú ostrom alatt áll – az objektív normalitás. E térség szerepe morálisan és erkölcsileg egy génbankéhoz hasonlatos, ahol az egészséges élet feltételeit őrzik bármiféle külső apokalipszis esetére. Elemi emberi és nemzeti érdek e normalitás megőrzése. (Forrás: Demokrata)
Kosovo
20 April 2017 If the EU closes its door to Kosovo, "all Albanians in the region will live in a single, united country so that the integration into the European family may continue," Kosovo President Taci has told Radio Free Europe. Taci made the statement just a day after Albanian PM Rama told the Brussels-based portal Politico a union between Albania and Kosovo could not be ruled out if EU membership prospects for the Western Balkans faded. (Source: Taniug)
Románia Romania
2017. IV. 20. Románia legnagyobb három fegyveripari ügyfele 2016-ban: Egyesült Államok: 67,34 millió euro. Az amerikaiak 2016-ban távcsöveket és vadászfegyver-alkatrészeket, 7.990 félautomata puskát, 225 félautomata távcsöves puskát, 4.380 pisztolyt, 1.066 könnyű géppuskát, 10.000 rohampuskát, 359 12,7 mm-es géppuskát, 24 légelhárító géppuskát, 650 40 mm-es tankelhárító gránátvetőt, 9 60 mm-es bombavetőt, 6 82 mm-es bombavetőt, 40 és 73 mm-es tankelhárító lövedékeket, 60 és 120 mm-es világítóbombákat, 60, 82 és 120 mm-es füstbombákat, géppuskahevedereket, hevedertöltő gépet, kiskaliberű fegyverekbe való lőszert, katonai repülőgépek számára alkatrészeket és elemeket, célzóberendezésekhez való alkatrészeket,lőszertárakat, kiskaliberű fegyverek egyes komponenseinek hatástalanítását, kommunikációs szoftvereket vásároltak. Bulgária: 19,74 millió euro. A bolgárok 2016-ban 922 40 és 73 mm-es tankelhárító gránátvetőt, 278 14,5 mm-es légelhárító géppuskát, távcsöveket, mozsárágyúkhoz való célzóberendezést, 40 mm-es lövedékeket, 73 mm-es lövedékeket és kumulatív gránátokat, 120 mm-es világítóbombákat, mozsárágyú-komponenseket, katonai gyakorló repülőgépekbe való komponenseket és alkatrészeket, lőszer hatástalanításához szükséges robbanószert, géppuskába való nyomjelzőlövedékeket, alkatrészeket, kiskaliberű fegyverekbe való lőszert importáltak Romániából. Szaúd-Arábia 19,4 millió euro. 2016-ban 360 60 mm-es mozsárágyút, 118 14,5 mm-es légelhárító géppuskát, kiskaliberű lőszert, 40 mm-es tankelhárító lövedékeket, KBRN-védőöltözetet vásárolt Romániától. (Forrás: Főtér): https://tinyurl.com/mb5cen8
Apr 20, 2017 NATO member Romania plans to buy Patriot missiles from U.S. company Raytheon to help protect its airspace. The defence budget in Romania -- a NATO member since 2004 and one of Washington's allies in eastern Europe along with Poland -- was 1.7 percent of gross domestic product in 2016 and was set at 2.0 percent this year. The missiles would be part of an integrated air defence system comprising six newly acquired F-16 fighter jets as Romania is bringing its forces up to NATO standards and retiring outdated communist-era MiGs. Poland expects to sign a $7.6 billion deal with Raytheon to buy eight Patriot missile defence systems by the end of this year. (Source: Reuters)
2017. IV. 11. Megszavazta döntő házként a Képviselőház azt az RMDSZ-es törvénytervezetet, amely kötelezővé teszi az egészségügyi és szociális szolgáltatásokat nyújtó intézményekben a magyar nyelv használatát. Az előírás azokra a településekre vonatkozik, ahol a magyarok számaránya eléri a húsz százalékot vagy az 5000 főt. (Forrás: maszol)
Slovakia
12th April 2017 The first ever production-ready flying car is due to be shown off later this month at the world’s most exclusive supercar show, Top Marques Monaco. Built by Slovak pioneering company AeroMobil, the vehicle was first revealed as a concept in 2014, and now a much improved version is almost ready for the world’s richest to take for a spin and purchase if they wish. Fully functional as both an aircraft and a four-wheeled car, it is powered by hybrid propulsion, with wings sweeping back against the body when the vehicle is in driving mode. CEO Vaculik claimed the futuristic motor would be available for purchase in 2017. (Source: TheSun): http://tinyurl.com/mf2x74t
Egyiptom
2017. IV. 11. A hit dala. Kopt keresztények: Szembenézhetünk a halállal a Krisztusba vetett hitünk miatt És láthatjuk, amint a gonoszság növekszik és felfedi undorító arcát (video) /Forrás: YouTube): https://tinyurl.com/mxyegkm
Lybia
11 April 2017 Migrants are being sold at open slave markets in Libya. Refugees from West Africa often arrive in the country with no money and no papers. There are slave markets and private prisons all over Libya. The going rate for a migrant was between $200 and $500 each, with many forced into captivity for months before they are freed or sold on. Organization for Migration (IOM) has helped repatriate 1,500 people back to West Africa so far this year where it is trying to inform people not to risk the journey to Libya where they face exploitation. (Source: InternationalBusinessTimes)
Afghanistan
13 April 2017 U.S. dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon after targeting isis tunnels in Afghanistan. The blast in eastern Afghanistan killed 36 militants, according to the Afghan Ministry of Defense. A specialized MC-130 'Hercules' cargo aircraft released the weapon at 7:00 p.m. local time. The GBU-43 bomb weighs 21,600 pounds, is 30 feet long, contains 11 tons of explosives and carries a mile-wide blast radius. It can create a blast crater more than 300 meters wide after being dropped from a Hercules MC-130 cargo plane. The Pentagon estimates that up to 800 isis soldiers were in the area at the time of the blast. Its frightening power was unleashed by the United States for the first time when it was dropped on an isis camp in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province. The isis faction in Afghanistan is known as the islamic state in Iraq and Syria-Khorasan province, or isis-k. Classed as a thermobaric bomb - 'thermo' for heat and 'baric' for pressure, the MOAB features a two stage detonation powered by H6 explosive which contains powdered aluminum. The first blast detonates and spreads highly flammable aluminum dust and the second is the baric blast - which literally sucks oxygen out from cave tunnels before rapidly becoming an expanding shock wave. Both the implosion and the blast wave cause massive internal damage to anyone. The explosion will also send a saber-rattling message to North Korea and Iran that rogue states' nuclear-weapons ambitions could be met with brute force. (Source: DailyMail)
Japan
Apr 13, 2017 North Korea may have the capacity to deliver missiles equipped with sarin nerve gas, Japanese Prime Minister Abe said, amid concerns that the reclusive state could soon conduct its sixth nuclear test or more missile launches. Members of a Japanese doomsday cult killed 12 people and made thousands ill in 1995 in simultaneous attacks with sarin nerve gas on five Tokyo rush-hour subway trains. North Korea marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of state founder Kim on Saturday, North Korea's biggest national day called "Day of the Sun". Leaders have in the past used the date to carry out weapons tests.North Korea has launched several missile tests this year, the latest on April 5 when it fired a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast. It conducted its fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9, 2016. (Reuters)
South Korea
11 April 2017 Seal Team Six that killed bin Laden has been taking part in secretive drills alongside other elite US forces in South Korea, training up to take out Kim. Ground, air, naval and special operations” are taking part in “several joint and combined field training operations” which involve up to 17,000 troops. The special operations teams are thought to also include the Army Rangers, Delta Force and Green Berets.The training started one day after US deployed its state-of-the-art THAAD missile defence system to the region. (Source: TheSun)
Syria
April 13, 2017 The U.S. military says a misdirected airstrike this week killed 18 friendly fighters battling islamic state alongside the international coalition in northern Syria. U.S. Central Command said that coalition aircraft were given the wrong coordinates by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces for a strike intended to target militants south of their stronghold in Tabqa. The Kurdish fighters, with air and ground support from the U.S.-led coalition, had surrounded Tabqa, which is on a dammed section of the Euphrates River just west of Raqqa, islamic state’s de facto capital in Syria. Several nations have contributed air power to the coalition, and it was not immediately clear which was behind the strike. The London-based monitoring group Airwars, which works with the coalition to track airstrike casualties, has found 37 reported friendly fire strikes in Iraq and Syria since 2014. This is terrible for morale of friendly forces on the ground. Victims’ families have not been compensated by Iraqi or coalition officials. (Source: LosAngelesTimes)
United States
April 20, 2017 In 2016, NASA established a new office for working with the Air Force, Defense Department, and FEMA to prevent speeding asteroids from impacting the Earth. NASA has been tracking near-Earth asteroids - those within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit - since 1998, but its funding has only recently begun to catch up to the scale of its efforts. In 2014, the Near-Earth Object Program saw its annual budget nearly double, from $20.4 million to $40 million. In 2016, it went up again to $50 million, and NASA established a new office dedicated specifically to planetary defense. Johnson was named NASA’s first planetary defense officer. (Source: DefenseOne)
April 15, 2017 Anti-Trump protesters savagely beat Trump supporters at University of Kalifornia, Berkeley. Protesters clad in all black are being seen beating up anyone wearing red, white, and blue. /videos/ (Source: NewsGrabien): https://tinyurl.com/kd8z6pl
April 14, 2017 Hawaii lawmakers want state officials to update plans for coping with a nuclear attack as North Korea develops nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that can reach the islands. The state House Public Safety Committee unanimously passed a resolution. The resolution said that in 1981, Oahu had hundreds of fallout shelters - "many stocked with medical kits, food, and sanitary kits." But in later years, funding dried up, and stocks were thrown out. The response plan from 1985 hasn't been updated since. There's also a need to educate the public about what they can do for themselves. (Source: HawaiiNewsNow)
April 14, 2017 Companies controlled by Israeli mining magnate Steinmetz sued fellow billionaire Soros, claiming he cost them at least $10 billion through a defamation campaign that stripped them of rights to an iron ore deposit in Guinea and other business opportunities around the world. Soros funded law firms, transparency groups, investigators and government officials in Guinea in a coordinated effort to ensure BSG Resources Ltd. lost the rights to the Simandou deposit in April 2014. Steinmetz and BSGR originally lost their rights to Simandou, because the Guinean government found that they obtained the permits after paying millions in bribes, including to Toure, the fourth wife of Guinea’s former president. The government’s decision was based on fabricated reports by Soros-funded companies. “Soros is also well known for his long-standing animus toward the state of Israel” , BSGR said in the complaint. The case is BSG Resources (Guinea) Ltd. v. Soros, 17-cv-02726, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). /Source: Bloomberg/
04 13 17 Forged in another era, one in which young girls were used as a sort of currency between men doing business with one another? Trump used to host parties in suites at the Plaza Hotel when he owned it, where young women and girls were introduced to older, richer men. This is hardly aberrant behavior in the modeling business. Indeed, it is standard operating procedure. Room with cocaine, very young women and underage girls, and rich, old men there to fuck them. Young models were attracted to the fetes with a simple, time-tested pitch. “You’ll meet rich guys who will help you". The girls were as young as 15, and over their heads, they had no idea, and they ended up in situations. There were always dramas because the men threw money and drugs at them to keep them enticed. It’s based on power and dominating girls who can’t push back and can be discarded. It was guys with younger girls, sex, a lot of sex, a lot of cocaine, top-shelf liquor but no smoking. Trump didn’t approve of cigarettes. Trump’s motive was a desire to open a model agency of his own, which he eventually did. (Source: TheDailyBeast)
US Army exploring ‘devastating’ new weapon for use in war with Russia. The Kinetic Energy Projectile would be a tungsten warhead that moves at three times the speed of sound, destroying anything in its path. It was first tested in 2013. Think of it as a big shotgun shell. Kinetic energy projectiles are warheads that “take advantage of high terminal speeds to deliver much more energy onto a target than the chemical explosives they carry would deliver alone. The main contender for a launcher would be the Army Tactical Missile System, made by Lockheed Martin. (Source: DefenseOne)
Globalization
April 16, 2017 China and Russia have dispatched intelligence-gathering vessels from their navies to chase the USS Carl Vinson nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which is heading toward waters near the Korean Peninsula. It appears that both countries aim to probe the movements of the United States, which is showing a stance of not excluding military action against North Korea. The Self-Defense Forces are strengthening warning and surveillance activities in the waters and airspace around the area. North Korea will celebrate the 85th anniversary of the foundation of its military on April 25. It maintains the stance that it intends to conduct its first nuclear test since September last year, which would be its sixth test, and test-launch intercontinental ballistic missiles. (Source: TheSaltLakeTribune)
April 16, 2017 The tech giant Google is working on a job site called Google Hire, which could let prospective employers snoop your embarrassing search history. It will reportedly be a recruitment tool similar to LinkedIn - however, early reports suggest it will be available through your personal Google account. (Source: News/Australia/: https://tinyurl.com/l87nf7u
14 April 2017 Rogue states such as Iran face tougher military action from America under Trump, the director of the CIA has warned, as he said the US is “closer now than we have ever been” to the threat of nuclear missiles from North Korea. Pompeo urged Iran to “take note” that Trump’s missile strikes against the Syrian military were a sign the White House was “prepared to engage in activities that are different from what America has been doing these past few years”. His comments came as China warned that military conflict over North Korea’s nuclear weapon’s programme could break out “at any moment” as a stand off with the US approached breaking point. The United States had reportedly drawn up plans for a pre-emptive military strike against North Korea. That would be a conventional strike, potentially using Tomahawk cruise missiles, to hit North Korea's nuclear test site, launched from US forces that have been massing in the area. The US has put two Navy destroyers, capable of firing Tomahawks nearby, with one of them only 300 miles from the nuclear test site. Japan’s National Security Council discussed how it would evacuate its 57,000 citizens from South Korea in the event of a crisis. The Chinese and Russian foreign ministers, Wang and Lavrov, discussed the situation by phone, with both countries then urging restraint. (Source: Telegraph)
April 14, 2017 The ShadowBrokers, an entity previously confirmed by The Intercept to have leaked authentic malware used by the NSA to attack computers around the world, today released another cache of what appears to be extremely potent (and previously unknown) software capable of breaking into systems running Windows. The software could give nearly anyone with sufficient technical knowledge the ability to wreak havoc on millions of Microsoft users. The leak includes a litany of typically codenamed software “implants” with names like ODDJOB, ZIPPYBEER, and ESTEEMAUDIT, capable of breaking into - and in some cases seizing control of - computers running version of the Windows operating system earlier than the most recent Windows 10. The vulnerable Windows versions ran more than 65 percent of desktop computers surfing the web last month. (Source: TheIntercept)
Space
13 April 2017 Anthropogenic space weather. Anthropogenic effects on the space environment started in the late 19th century and reached their peak in the 1960s when high-altitude nuclear explosions were carried out by the USA and the Soviet Union. These explosions created artificial radiation belts near Earth that resulted in major damages to several satellites. Another, unexpected impact of the high-altitude nuclear tests was the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that can have devastating effects over a large geographic area. Other anthropogenic impacts on the space environment include chemical release experiments, high-frequency wave heating of the ionosphere and the interaction of VLF waves with the radiation belts. This paper reviews the fundamental physical process behind these phenomena and discusses the observations of their impacts. Human radio transmissions form a bubble in space protecting us from "killer electrons." As Van Allen discovered in the 1950s and 1960s, there are two radiation belts surrounding Earth with a 'slot' between them. The outer radiation belt contains electrons with energies of a million or more electron-volts. These 'killer electrons' have the potential to damage spacecraft, even causing permanent failures. During strong geomagnetic storms, the outer radiation belt expands, causing the killer electrons to approach Earth. NASA's Van Allen Probes, a pair of spacecraft sent to explore the radiation belts, found that something was stopping the particles from getting too close. The penetration of the outer belt stopped right at the same place as the edge of VLF strong transmissions from humans on the ground. These VLF transmissions penetrate seawater, so we use them to communicate with submarines. They also propagate upward along Earth's magnetic field lines, forming a 'bubble' of VLF waves that reaches out to about 2.8 Earth-radii- the same spot where the ultra-relativistic electrons seem to stop. VLF radio waves clear the area of killer electrons via a wave-particle gyro-resonance. "Essentially, they are just the right frequency to scatter the particles into our atmosphere where their energy is safely absorbed. Because powerful VLF transmitters have been operating since before the dawn of the Space Age, it is possible that we have never observed the radiation belts in their pristine, unperturbed state. (Source: Springer)
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13 April 2017 There might be alien life in our own solar system, Nasa has announced. All of the necessary things to support life have been found on one of the moons that orbits Saturn. Enceladus has chemicals that when found on Earth tend to indicate life, suggesting that there might be living things under its icy shell, a chemical energy source capable of supporting life. The new findings came from the Cassini spacecraft, which flew through a huge plume of water that was being shot out of the surface of Enceladus. The molecular hydrogen found could only plausibly have come from hydrothermal reactions between hot rocks and water underneath the moon’s icy crust. The kind of life that may live on Enceladus would likely eat that hydrogen and then release methane - which has also been found coming from the moon. The material Cassini flew through also included large amounts of carbon dioxide. Molecular hydrogen and carbon dioxide are critical for the process of methanogenesis – a reaction that sustains microbes in similar dark, undersea environments on Earth. Three ingredients are needed for life on a planet: water, organic molecules and a source of energy. (Surce: TheIndependent)
13 April 2017 The first image of a dark matter "bridge", believed to form the links between galaxies, has been captured by astrophysicists in Canada. Researchers at the University of Waterloo used a technique known as weak gravitational lensing to create a composite image of the bridge. Their composite image was made up of a combination of combined lensing images taken of more than 23,000 galaxy pairs, spotted 4.5 billion light-years away. This effect was measured from a multi-year sky survey at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. These results show that the dark matter filament bridge is strongest between systems less than 40 million light years apart, and confirms predictions that galaxies across the Universe are tied together through a cosmic web of the elusive substance. One of the possible candidates for dark matter is a particle called the axion, first proposed in 1977. It appears in some extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. Astronomers believe that if axions make up dark matter, they could be detected through gravitational waves. This is because axions accelerated by a black hole would give off gravitational waves, just as electrons give off electromagnetic waves. Natarajan, a professor of astrophysics at Yale University, and her team brought the search for dark matter a step forward by creating the most detailed map of dark matter ever created. (Source: Wired)
April 11, 2017 A team of Harvard researchers is preparing a first-of-its-kind field experiment in the hotly-debated area of solar geoengineering, the controversial idea to combat climate change by pumping aerosols into the sky to reflect the sun’s rays back into space. The study will be the first to actually shoot tiny amounts of material into the stratosphere to study solar geoengineering — although researchers caution they will start with water vapor and won’t exceed volumes over 1 kilogram of any substance. Keutsch and his colleagues plan to send a balloon equipped with sensors and propellers 20 kilometers above Earth from a launch site near Tucson, AZ. There, the balloon will spray water into the stratosphere, creating a plume of floating ice crystals one kilometer long and 100 meters wide. The first stage of the test could occur as soon as next year. (Source: Seeker)
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