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Researchers have developed an unusual method for increasing the performance of the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosive.
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New rules allowing greater oversight of works on government and military sites follow repeated warnings about spies targeting key facilities.
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China’s C919 to benefit as Beijing bankrolls ‘large aircraft’ research
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