According to an Oct. 29 analysis by Hans Kristensen posted on the Federation of American Scientists' Strategic Security Blog, the United States still deploys 10 to 20 B61 free-fall nuclear bombs at Biichel Air Force Base in western Germany. According to a knowledgeable source, the compromise formula in the government program in the end had to be agreed at the highest level, by party leaders Chancellor Angela Merkel of the CDU and incoming Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle of the FDP.
[...] he signed several executive orders that set out new guidelines for a clear and open government, including one that requires the president to seek advice from the solicitor general about the classification of documents. [...] there is a 50 percent total overclassification rate, according to former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Counterintelligence and Security Carol A. Haave.\n Obama has supported this approach to governing, and his transition team has come up with recommendations for improving the current system of declassification. "Many of his recommendations pointed backwards, towards undoing what the Bush administration has done, rather than to a qualitatively new information security policy," writes Steven Aftergood, director ofthe Federation of American Scientists' ...
So important was an April 30 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution that it should have been on front pages around the country. Titled "Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government" and chaired by Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat. it focused on an issue ignored by the presidential contenders that has deeply weakened our rule of law. Said witness Steve Aftergood, secrecy authority at the Federation of American Scientists: Growing use of secret law "is implicated in fundamental political controversies over domestic surveillance, torture and many other issues directly affecting the lives and interests of Americans ... Secret law
Nevada attorney Robert Hager is not waiting for the state to decide. Immediately following [James Tegnelia]'s remark, he filed suit against the Defense Department on behalf of two downwinders and members of the Western Shoshone tribe, citing the potential for radioactive, biological and chemical contamination. The lawsuit also says that the test site still belongs to the Shoshones, and that the blast would continue the desecration of tribal lands that Hager says have been used for decades as the government's weapon "playground. The Pentagon's line zigzags on whether the test is nuclear-oriented or not. In 2002 and 2006, Pentagon budgets included experiments "to simulate a low-yield nuclear weapon" as part of its drive to create battlefield mininukes, in spite of the fact that the Compr...
... admitted to Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists that Divine Strake is the t...
Following his unfortunate remarks, Dr. [James Watson] told an audience in London that he regretted what he had said. "To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly," he said. "That is not what I meant. More importantly, there is no scientific basis for such a belief. As if taking a cue from the title of his recent book, "Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life of Science," Dr. Watson has caused quite a stir among his colleagues, and many have voiced their resentment to his remarks. One group of Nobel laureates-The Federation of American Scientists-which was founded by the Manhattan Project of atomic physicists, said it was "outraged by the noxious comments."
Bloggers scavenging the Internet in July for scandals about Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. thought they had red meat. On July 20, Secrecy News, a Web publication of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, reported that Judge Roberts was involved in the Iran-Contra affair. New Media had bested Old Media again. Secrecy News uncovered chinks in Mr. Roberts's armor that NBC, ABC, CBS, the New York Times and The Washington Post had missed.
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