• U.K. local authorities lack intelligence for effective counter-terrorism

    A government study finds that government counter-terrorism funding to local authorities and neighborhood policing over the last two years has yet to translate into a coherent strategy to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremists

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  • Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository too small

    Congress has placed a 77,000-ton limit on the amount of nuclear waste that can be buried in Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository (the repository will open in 2020 at the earliest); trouble is, the 104 active U.S. nuclear reactors, together with the Pentagon, produce that amount of waste in two years

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  • Nonlethal weapons may be used against modern-day pirates

    A U.S. Navy admiral expresses an interest in Active Denial Systems (or nonlethal weapons which emit an ear-piercing sound) against pirates; Pentagon skittish about use of such systems

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  • Raytheon in $442 million missile defense contract

    In the early days of Star Wars it was believed that only beam weapons would offer the hope of destroying hundreds of warheads and thousands of decoys which would be part of a Soviet missile attacks on the United States; Iran and North Korea do not have hundreds of missiles and thousands of decoys, so kinetic multiple-kill vehicles may do the job

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  • Cyberattacks target U.K. national infrastructure

    The computer systems of critical businesses in the United Kingdom, such as power companies and large financial institutions, are being repeatedly probed to steal information or uncover weaknesses that could take them down

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