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Spotlight | United States
US Northern Command swots up on Russia's Arctic claims

The US Department of Defense's combatant command present in the Arctic has met with researchers of the Los Alamos National Laboratory to explore national security applications for their sea ice modelling in the Russia-controlled Northern Sea Route. [...]

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US Northern Command

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