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In this image released by the U.S. Air Force, a Malmstrom Air Force Base missile maintenance team removes the upper section of an ICBM at a Montana missile site. An Air Force security team's botched response to a simulated assault on a nuclear missile silo has prompted a blistering review followed by expanded training to deal with the nightmare scenario of a real attack. But an internal review of the exercise held last summer at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana said the security forces were unable to speedily regain control of the captured silo, and called this a
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AP Exclusive: Botched nuclear silo drill revealed

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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with upper parliament chamber speaker Valentina Matviyenko prior to the Security Council meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday, May 19, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops deployed in regions near Ukraine to return to their home bases, the Kremlin said Monday. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
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Pentagon: No sign of Russian troop pullback

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel while delivering remarks at his office on Friday, May 16, 2014 in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)
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Hagel says US won’t let Iran build nuclear weapon

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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, right, speak during a joint conference following a meeting at Israel's Defense Force headquarters in Tel Aviv, Thursday, May 15, 2014. Hagel is on a regional tour focusing on Iran's nuclear program and Syria's civil war. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)
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Israeli official: Gas attacks continue in Syria

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US: Syrian chemical facilities must be destroyed
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US: Syrian chemical facilities must be destroyed

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Hagel unhappy with House panel’s defense budget
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Hagel unhappy with House panel’s defense budget

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Former nuke officer reprimanded in gambling case

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People in helmets (left and right), dressed as Russian factories workers, hold a man wearing Barack Obama's mask with mock NATO's bomb in chains, as they take part in a Communists demonstration in downtown Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May, 1, 2014. Thousands of Communists, members of Russia's main political parties and opposition activists staged competing marches in Moscow and other cities Thursday marking the traditional May Day holiday. Poster at the background reads : Peace, Labour, May. (AP Photo/Denis Tyrin)
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Hagel: NATO to rethink relations with Russia

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NATO official: Russia now an adversary
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NATO official: Russia now an adversary

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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Flynn, the three-star Army general who has headed the Defense Intelligence Agency for less than two years is being nudged aside amid conflict within the agency and between the general and leaders elsewhere in the intelligence community, a senior defense official said Wednesday, April 30. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)
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Top 2 Pentagon intelligence officials quitting

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