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Washington Post
10-07-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Pentagon takes stake in rare-earth firm as U.S. seeks non-Chinese sources
The Defense Department will become the largest shareholder in rare-earth mining company MP Materials by buying $400 million of its stock and providing another $150 million loan. Las Vegas-based MP Materials owns the only rare-earth mine in the United States, at Mountain Pass, California. Chief executive Jim Litinsky said the company aims to restore the full rare-earth supply chain in the United States and eliminate a 'single point of failure' in the country's military-industrial base.
Asharq Al-Awsat
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Russia Says It Struck Military-industrial Facilities in Kyiv
Russia's defense ministry said on Thursday that its forces had successfully carried out strikes on military-industrial facilities in Kyiv and on a military airfield in Ukraine. "The armed forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with high-precision long-range weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine in Kyiv and on the infrastructure of the military airfield," the ministry said. Reuters could not independently verify battlefield reports.
South China Morning Post
19-06-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
China builds portable neutron gun powered by hydrogen-lithium nuclear reaction
Researchers from China 's northwestern military-industrial hub have achieved controlled nuclear reactions between hydrogen and lithium in a compact device for the first time. Advertisement The feat marks a significant breakthrough in neutron generation technology with implications for scientific , industrial and defence applications. Unlike previous designs requiring massive accelerators, this powerful but portable particle gun harnesses a novel electromagnetic technique to smash hydrogen protons into lithium atoms to achieve nuclear fusion with unprecedented efficiency, producing a nail-size beam with 10 billion fast neutrons generated per second. Each neutron packs 3 million electron volts of energy – similar to particles emitted during an atomic bomb explosion Neutrons are tiny particles inside atoms, with no electric charge. Their neutrality lets them slip through materials like an 'atomic flashlight'. Advertisement
