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Q&A: Iran Nuclear Probe Must Advance, IAEA Chief Says
April 26, 2013
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The investigation of Iran’s nuclear program must be allowed to take on the real concerns at hand rather than remain stuck going “round in circles” in endless talks, according to the United Nations’ top nuclear official. The International Atomic Energy Agency since early 2012 has convened nine meetings with Iranian ...
Possible North Korea Nuke Test Emissions Identified
April 23, 2013
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An international nuclear nonproliferation organization said on Tuesday it has identified what appear to be radioactive materials released more than two months ago by North Korea’s third nuclear test. Sensors in Japan and Russia detected the xenon 131m and xenon 133 earlier this month, according to the Preparatory Commission for ...
State Department Awards Website Where Nukes Meet Pop Culture
March 15, 2013
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The U.S. government is assisting one student’s mission to use popular culture – from Godzilla to Slim Pickens’ wild bomb ride in Stanley Kubrick’s "Dr. Strangelove" – for spreading information on nuclear weapons policy. Monterey Institute of International Studies graduate student Lovely Umayam this month won a $5,000 first prize ...
Air Force Nuke Command Could Furlough 2,900 Civilians Under Sequester
February 25, 2013 The U.S. Air Force branch that manages the nation’s nuclear bombers and Intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, will be forced to furlough about 2,900 civilian staffers if large federal budget reductions take hold on Friday. Congressional Republicans and the White House remain at loggerheads over options for avoiding $85 billion ...
Nuclear Lab Remains Vulnerable to Cyberstrikes, Energy IG says
February 15, 2013
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A leading U.S. nuclear arms site has taken significant steps in recent years to defend against strikes on its computer systems, but key weaknesses remain to be fixed, the Energy Department’s inspector general said this week. The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico uses a host of information systems ...
Budget slashing hits U.S. ability to deal with global dangers, Panetta says
February 6, 2013 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Wednesday that looming massive federal budget cutbacks would undermine the nations’ capacity to deal militarily with North Korea and other hot spots around the world. “This is not a game. This is reality,” Panetta said just days before his departure from the Pentagon. Congress ...
Airborne nuclear forensics tool being prepared
January 25, 2013
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The U.S. Air Force and a major national research laboratory are collaborating to deploy a new airborne tool for identifying the origin of a nuclear bomb after detonation. The “Harvester” technology would offer a “modular nuclear debris sampling capability” -- pods that could be attached to manned or drone aircraft ...
NNSA selects new firm to manage two nuclear arms sites
January 8, 2013 The National Nuclear Security Administration on Tuesday announced that it had selected a new contractor to manage two key nuclear arms facilities, one of which was the site of a high-profile security breach in 2012. Consolidated Nuclear Security on May 1 will take over operations at the Y-12 National Security ...
NNSA helicopter now on hunt for radiation in Washington, D.C.
January 4, 2013
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Data collected by a helicopter flying daily over Washington, D.C., through next week could one day be key to detecting a nuclear or radiological weapon amid the clutter of harmless radioactive sources scattered through the city. The National Nuclear Security Administration began sending the rotorcraft loaded with radiation-detection equipment over ...
Pentagon, NIH fund pollen-based vaccine delivery research
December 10, 2012
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The U.S. government in recent months has committed nearly $2 million for research that could one day allow troops in the field to vaccinate themselves against biological warfare threats. At the core of the Texas Tech University work on improved vaccine delivery is pollen -- the allergy-provoking powder released by ...
