Tag: nuclear
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los alamos: nuke violations & classified info breaches
from danger room: There have been so many security and safety meltdowns at Los Alamos over the last five years, it’s hard to keep ’em all straight (well, at least the ones that don’t involved meth labs). But now, the investigators at the Government Accountability Office have put a half-decade of scandals into a single…
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russia ‘ditching cold war pacts’
from telegraph: Russia is steadily “unraveling” the historic arms control treaties that ended the Cold War and became cornerstones of European security, the most comprehensive survey of global military trends said yesterday. The Military Balance 2008 (375kb PDF) portrays Russia as breaking out of the constraints imposed by treaties once considered inviolable. John Chipman, the…
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radiation pills, blackwater ills, gold & a ‘gannon moment’
white house drops anti-radiation pill planfrom upi: The Bush administration has dropped a program to distribute anti-radiation pills to citizens who live near nuclear reactors, officials said. John Marburger, U.S. President George Bush’s top science adviser, said Monday the over-the-counter potassium iodide pills “offer negligible additional protection” against radiation exposure and there were more effective…
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real id, tecsar, davos, the black pope & wal-mart
let the governors’ rebellion against real id begin!from no quarter: Montana governor Brian Schweitzer – who, by the way, speaks fluent Arabic from his years in Saudi Arabia as an irrigation developer – “declared independence Friday from federal identification rules [”Real ID”] and called on governors of 17 other states to join him in forcing…
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dix tricks, urban panic, nuke breach & homeschool security
playing tricks with the fort dix six?from time: “Now you see why we were going to sacrifice all for the sake of allah in jihad,” says the neatly handwritten note on prison-issue paper. “We weren’t able to finish.” Those seemingly incriminating words are part of a letter the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey says…
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hillary: nuking terrorist ‘safe havens’ a possibility
clinton promises ‘heavy retaliation’ for terrorist-harboring nations from raw story: New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, finding herself in an unexpectedly close race with freshman Sen. Barack Obama, flexed her national security muscles in Saturday night’s Democratic debate, raising the possibility of loosing nuclear weapons on countries that harbor terrorists who plot a nuclear attack on…
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video of sleeping guards shakes nuclear industry
from washington post: Kerry Beal was taken aback when he discovered last March that many of his fellow security guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania were taking regular naps in what they called “the ready room.” When he spoke to supervisors at his company, Wackenhut Corp., they told Beal to be…
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december clearinghouse
top economist says america could plunge into recession * ohio guard call-up said to be largest since wwii * how to lose your job on your own time * mexico to microchip central american migrants * eli lilly knew prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other antidepressants * wtc7: a tale of three broadcasters…
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recruiting, russia, nuke site, ptsd, budget & ‘condor’
US military recruiting illegal aliensfrom press tv: Mexican citizen groups claim the US army is recruiting illegal immigrants from Mexico to send them to the war in Iraq. According to Prensa Latina on Friday in Culiacan, the capital of the northern state Sinaloa, civil activist Ildefonso Ortiz Cabrera told reporters that US military officers use…
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news on the march
estimate says iran nuke program stopped in 2003from iht: A new U.S. intelligence report concludes that Iran’s nuclear weapons development program has been halted since the fall of 2003 because of international pressure – a stark contrast to the conclusions U.S. spy agencies drew just two years ago. and now, for more on this story…
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news on the march
for god’s saic!from op-ed news: Who in the hell is SAIC? Who in the hell is it’s former chairman, J. Robert Beyster? For that matter, who in the hell is its current chairman, Kenneth C. Dalhberg? Well, after some virtual footstepping and some practical considerations, my conclusions lead to the word, trouble. Big trouble! ……
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israel on alert: secret nuclear plant in the crosshairs
from israel international news: The missile defense system at Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor is on high alert due to concerns that Syria might target it in an attack. Israeli officials say the Dimona facility is “on the top of [Syria’s] list.” According to a report published in the British Sunday Times, the Dimona nuclear reactor…
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israel: ‘apocalyptic scenario’ if egypt & saudi go nuclear
from afp: Egyptian and Saudi nuclear ambitions, on top of Iran’s atomic drive, will lead to an “apocalyptic scenario”, a senior Israeli cabinet minister said in comments published on Friday. “If Egypt and Saudi Arabia begin nuclear programmes, this can bring an apocalyptic scenario upon us,” Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the English-language Jerusalem…
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pipe bomb puts arizona nuclear plant on lockdown
from ap: Security officials at the nation’s largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, and investigators were searching his apartment, authorities said. It didn’t appear to be an act of terrorism, authorities said, but they were still trying to determine why…
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why they called it ‘the manhattan project’
from new york times: By nature, code names and cover stories are meant to give no indication of the secrets concealed. “Magic” was the name for intelligence gleaned from Japanese ciphers in World War II, and “Overlord” stood for the Allied plan to invade Europe. Many people assume that the same holds true for the…