Didymium oxide, a combination of neodymium and praseodymium, two rare earth elements is shown at at Molycorp Mineral's Mountain Pass Mine in Mountain Pass, California August 19, 2009. Credit: Reuters/David Becker (UNITED STATES)Did China Test Fire its Resource Weapon? -- Real Clear World
From the heyday of the Cold War to our present-day monitoring of rogue nation nuclear quests, the U.S. and its allies have maintained a technological picket fence to pick up evidence of test firings. In detecting the launch of a new weapon in the past 48 hours, however, NORAD's tracking screens were of no use. The trip wires in this test-launch are cargo shipping agents and port manifests. Their message was mixed, but ominous: China may have just test-fired an economic weapon in the Resource Wars.
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