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U.S. ignored rising seas warning at site of nearly $1 billion space radar facility

By Nick Perry

Nick Perry, correspondent, New Zealand, for reporting exclusively that the U.S. ignored warnings about rising seas when spending nearly $1 billion to build a space debris tracking installation on a Pacific atoll. http://wapo.st/2eSdz1D

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By The Associated Press

OCT. 27, 2016

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