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World powers will stop nuclear Iran: German FM
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle vowed Thursday that the international community will block Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, as he underscored Germany’s steadfast support for Israel. “The current Iranian nuclear program represents an enormous danger” not only to Israel but to the region as a whole,” Westerwelle told a Jewish advocacy event in Washington. [...]
Novel radiation surveillance technology could help thwart nuclear terrorism
Among terrorism scenarios that raise the most concern are attacks involving nuclear devices or materials. For that reason, technology that can effectively detect smuggled radioactive materials is considered vital to U.S. security. To support the nation’s nuclear-surveillance capabilities, researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are developing ways to enhance the radiation-detection devices used [...]
Iran-US brinkmanship over oil strait of Hormuz worsens
A showdown between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers worsened on Thursday with warships from each side giving weight to an increasingly bellicose exchange of words. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards rejected a warning that the US military would “not tolerate” such a closure, saying [...]
Exercise tests response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear threats
Before taking on the role of the Army’s lead element in the Defense Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Response Force, or DCRF, on Sept. 30, Fort Polk’s 1st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade took part in a training exercise at Camp Atterbury, Ind. During the 1st MEB’s transfer of authority ceremony, Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort [...]
Hunt on for Russian nuclear smuggler: US report
Authorities in the ex-Soviet republic of Moldova are hunting the alleged Russian mastermind of a failed plan to sell weapons-grade uranium on the black market, a new US Senate report said Tuesday. AFP reported in June that Moldova police had arrested six suspects and seized a sample of Uranium-235 in a sting that thwarted a [...]
Global Strike Command tests nuclear readiness
Airmen with Global Strike Command recently completed the first command-wide nuclear operational readiness exercise, called Constant Vigilance, without taking a break from scheduled wing-level activities, exercises and training. “This operation energized every part of the command,” said Maj. Scott Ryan, the deputy chief for the Air Force Exercise Operations branch at Global Strike Command headquarters. [...]
Nuclear scientist says bomb saved Pakistan
The father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb has vigorously defended the program as sparing his country the fate of Iraq or Libya, amid signs that Islamabad is ramping up its weapons capacities. Writing in Newsweek magazine, Abdul Qadeer Khan said that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons had prevented war with historic rival India, which he accused of pursuing [...]
Assistant secretary of defense talks nuclear deterrence, treaties
The top defense official charged with defending the nation from nuclear, chemical and biological threats visited here May 9 to observe the Airmen responsible for maintaining and protecting America’s nuclear deterrent. Andrew Weber, the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, met with Airmen, received a B-2 Spirit mission orientation and [...]
Continuing to Strengthen Nuclear Operations: Munitions Squadrons to Realign
Air Force officials announced April 27 here plans to transfer munitions squadrons responsible for nuclear mission support from Air Force Materiel Command to Air Force Global Strike Command in the next 12 months. This is another step in continuing to strengthen the nuclear enterprise; under a previous move, these munitions squadrons were consolidated under AFMC’s [...]
