The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is set to collaborate with the owner of roughly 8,000 U.S. weather tracking posts on a system to assess the movement of potentially lethal materials following a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear strike, (Read more...)

The man who attempted in May to detonate a vehicle bomb in New York City's Times Square intended to launch a second attack two weeks later, U.S. prosecutors said yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 28).

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The U.S. Defense Department has again trimmed its estimate on the number of blister agent munitions that could be destroyed with explosives at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 14).

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It is time to retire our ambiguous mantra about all options remaining on the table.

--U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), urging that the United States unequivocally declare that it is willing to use military force as a last resort to (Read more...)

A rare photograph of the presumed next leader of aspiring nuclear power North Korea was released today, the first glimpse the international community has had in years of the youngest son of ailing ruler Kim Jong Il, Reuters reported (see (Read more...)

The U.S. Defense Department yesterday said it had signed a contract valued at close to $12 billion for updates to its nuclear-capable B-52 bombers, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Dec. 16, 2009).

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A possible Old Testament reference in the "Stuxnet" computer worm suggests Israel might have released the code now infecting systems at Iran's soon-to-open Bushehr nuclear power plant, the New York Times reported yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 29).

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WASHINGTON -- To implement the U.S.-Russian "New START" arms control agreement, Washington is likely to "inactivate" one-sixth of its capacity to launch nuclear weapons from submarines, according to defense officials (see GSN, Sept. 27).

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China and the United States plan to slowly re-establish military contacts beginning in October through a succession of meetings between senior delegates from each country, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 23).

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The Maradykovsky chemical weapons disposal plant in Russia has halted operations while officials investigate an accident in which four plant workers were apparently exposed to a lethal nerve agent, Interfax reported yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 29).

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