Obama wants to speed purchase of icebreakers for the Arctic and Russian challenge

Wednesday, September 2nd 2015 - 00:00 UTC

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President Barack Obama on Tuesday is proposing a faster timetable for buying a new heavy icebreaker for the U.S. Arctic, where quickly melting sea ice has spurred more maritime traffic, and the United States has fallen far behind Russian resources. Read full article

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Briton
We ned a few more for the UK artic...
Sep 02nd, 2015 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
Looks like the US has been asleep on this one.
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