The Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee as of Thursday had nearly finished transferring its weapon-grade uranium to a new high-security storage facility, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced (see GSN, April 9, 2010).
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev must take up with President Obama the demand for written assurances that Russia would not be a focus of a planned European missile shield, as a lower-level campaign has failed to produce such a pledge, Interfax (Read more...)
Numerous technical setbacks involving a recently deployed water decontamination mechanism at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have raised questions over whether authorities will achieve a goal to free the damaged facility of radiation-tainted fluid in 2011, the Asahi Shimbun (Read more...)
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday gave voice-vote approval to legislation intended to reauthorize leading U.S. biological defense programs (see GSN, July 27).
H.R. 2405 is intended to renew the 2006 Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, notably (Read more...)
WASHINGTON -- The sarin nerve agent strikes carried out by a Japanese cult in the 1990s suggest that chemical weapons are a more viable and accessible option than biological materials for terrorists seeking to use a weapon of mass destruction, (Read more...)
North Korea and the United States on Thursday held initial "businesslike" discussions on the potential to resume moribund six-party talks aimed at shuttering Pyongyang's nuclear program, Reuters reported (see GSN, July 28).
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Is it going to kill many people? No. Is it going to scare people? Yes.
--Former U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter, predicting that al-Qaeda or allied groups would continue to pursue low-level chemical and biological attacks that (Read more...)
The New York Police Department is preparing to bring online an innovative monitoring network for detecting the presence of radiological materials that could be part of a "dirty bomb," the Associated Press reported on Friday (see GSN, April 12).
The United States should designate one or more long-term atomic waste storage locations to replace canceled plans for an underground repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., a blue-ribbon task force said in a preliminary report issued on Friday (see GSN, (Read more...)
North Korea and the United States on Thursday held initial "businesslike" discussions on the potential to resume moribund six-party talks aimed at shuttering Pyongyang's nuclear program, Reuters reported (see GSN, July 28).
"Today's discussions have been serious and businesslike," (Read more...)