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Attacks Using Chemical
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...Using modern business practices, like a simple accountin... of shutting down and preventing follow-on attacks on the United States. Let me switch to Iraq, al Qa... large casualty terrorist attacks using chemical, biological, or less likely, nuclear materials wil...
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Former officials: Al-Qaida still likely to use WMD ASPEN, Colo. - - A chemical or biological attack by al-Qaida and its offshoots remains a threat, despite the killing of terror leader Osama bin Laden, top former U.S. counterterrorist officials said Thursday. "We still have pockets of al-Qaida around the world who see this as a key way to fight us," especially the offshoot in Yemen, Mike Leiter, the just-retired director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum. "The potential threat from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is very real." Leiter said the new breed of terrorists understands that killing a few Americans can cause as much fear as the massive plots bin Laden backed. "The most likely ... are simple forms of chemical or biological ...
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Nonetheless, the Joint Chiefs of Staff opposed such restrictions on their use of nuclear weapons, and the U.S. delegation to the NPT negotiations was not authorized to agree to any.2 Following the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and the revelation that the Soviet Union had deployed nuclear weapons with its troops on Cuban soil, several Latin American countries, spearheaded by Mexico and Brazil, successfully negotiated the Latin American and Caribbean Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, known also as the Treaty of Tlatelolco. The United States reaffirms that it will not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon [NPT members] except in the case of an invasion or any other attack on the United States, its territories, its armed forces or other troops, its allies, or on a state towards which i...
..., even against those states that possess chemical or biological weapons. Indeed, the United States n... weapons-use policy after the terrorist attacks of 2001. The Defense Department's December 2001 Nu... weapons to retaliate against attacks using chemical or biological weapons or to destroy enemy...
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... the basic framework for analyzing armed attacks. Part V explores the challenges that non-state ac... Finally, Part VIII urges states to start using active defenses to protect themselves from cyberat..., causing floodgates to open, 113 or chemical, nuclear, and liquid natural gas plant control sys...
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Taking advantage of President Obama's "road map" to peace in the Middle East, Palestinian Authority leaders are now launching a new campaign to create "Palestine. Their plan, a diplomatic end-run around Israel, is to venture unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood in the West Bank (Judea/Samaria), Gaza and East Jerusalem. In essence, this plan would seek to create Palestine by vote of the United Nations Security Council.
... "only" conventional and/or biological attacks on Israel, Jerusalem might respond, sooner or late... first-strike attacks upon Israel using chemical and/or biological weapons are apt to take...
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HALABJA, Iraq -- Hundreds of Kurds danced in the streets Sunday, celebrating the news that Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin, "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid, and two other regime officials had been sentenced to hang for massacring up to 180,000 Kurds in a brutal crackdown two decades ago. Two other defendants were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the 1987-88 crackdown, known as "Operation Anfal." A sixth defendant was acquitted for lack of evidence. Death sentences are automatically appealed.
... one of history's biggest chemical weapons attacks against a civilian population. More than 5,000 peo... them to wide and systematic attacks using chemical weapons and artillery. You led the killin...
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The US' current and potential adversaries are looking for the weaknesses in the US information infrastructure and mapping out where and how they would mount a cyber attack. The broad diversity of potential sources of attacks, US reliance on information systems that are inherently insecure, and the international dimensions of both cyber attacks and governmental responses raise a host of complicated policy questions. These include how best to improve the state of cyber security; what can be done to improve international cooperation on stemming cyber crime and preventing and responding to cyber terrorism; and whether an international treaty or other measures should be taken to prevent or contain cyber warfare. At a bare minimum, the US needs to improve the state of cyber security of its cr...
...These include attacks using nuclear, radiological, chemical, and biological we...
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Staci Matlock New Mexico's spicy chiles can make grown men cry and ease the common cold, but they haven't faredwell against root-rotting organisms known as Phytophthora. Decades-long efforts by New Mexico State University researchers to grow a Phytophthora-fighting chile have proven largely futile. But scientists are now hoping that biotechnology and genetic research will help them create a new version lacking none of its ancestor's spice - and the state Legislature is providing some help. Lawmakers recently approved a $250,000 annual appropriation to New Mexico State University for both genetic-engineering research and mechanical harvesting. Both are key to the industry's survival, say commercial chile growers. "A lot of problems are solvable through conventional breeding," said Steve ...
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On Aug. 28, 2008, an explosion in a "residue treater vessel" at Bayer's Institute plant killed one worker and burned another so severely that he also died. The explosion was powerful enough to turn the residue vessel into a 5,000-pound projectile plowing through 50 feet of equipment in Bayer's Methomyl-Larvin unit. By now, after a congressional investigation and a public presentation by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, we know about the extraordinary series of mistakes that led to the disaster; the failure of Bayer to inform emergency officials of what happened so that they could protect nearby neighborhoods; the blunt use of Homeland Security rules to divert an investigation into the larger MIC unit and prevent transmission of information to the public; and Bayer's efforts to respond to...
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The international shipping industry faces a challenge: enhancing cargo container security without impeding traffic flow. Marine insurers, meanwhile, face their own challenge: writing policies in accordance with an increasingly bureaucracy-laden system. While an ongoing test of a private sector security system with Hong Kong Container Terminal Operators Association Ltd shows signs of hope that intense scrutiny and expeditious cargo traffic can coexist harmoniously, back in the United States, the Customs and Border Protection begins its incoming cargo inspection with review of shipping manifests. From there, suspicious cargo loads - say, from a country unfriendly with the US - are set aside for additional scrutiny. The "24 hour rule" of the Marine Transportation Security Act requires that...
...Using gamma ray imaging and radiation scanning, ICIS ena... enhancements do affect the likelihood of attacks at different targets.". He forecasts an increased ... next five years: terrorist attacks using chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. The...
