In a test yesterday in the New Mexico desert, a laser for the first time destroyed an artillery projectile in flight, according to an Army Space and Missile Defense Command announcement.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
In a test yesterday in the New Mexico desert, a laser for the first time destroyed an artillery projectile in flight, according to an Army Space and Missile Defense Command announcement.
U.S., Japanese and South Korean leaders over the weekend released a joint statement calling on North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program and keep its commitments under a number of nonproliferation regimes.
Despite steps taken to fortify the nation after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States remains "dangerously unprepared" for another attack on the homeland, a Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored task force concludes in a report released today.
The National Nuclear Security Administration is looking to build a new manufacturing facility capable of producing at least 125 plutonium pits a year, officials at the Energy Department agency said last week.
A group of three influential lawmakers yesterday called for the immediate termination of the 1994 U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework given this week's revelation that Pyongyang has been operating a clandestine nuclear weapons program for several years.
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill yesterday to strengthen worldwide efforts to identify and secure radiological material that terrorists could use to make "dirty bombs."
President Bush has nominated Army Maj. Gen. Robert Wagner to be the deputy commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command, for which he would receive a third star.
Success for the United States in any military campaign against Iraq ultimately will be judged by the kind of peace established after the fighting against Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad subsides, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) plans to say in a speech tonight at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
The cost of war against Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad could cost nearly $100 billion, if operations go as "smoothly" as those during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but could jump to $200 billion if the conflict proves more difficult, according to a report released yesterday by the House Budget Committee Democrats.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz yesterday designated the head of U.S. Joint Forces Command the Pentagon's executive agent for joint urban operations.
The Office of Management and Budget yesterday released a report outlining $100 billion the federal government has spent or plans to spend in response to last year's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
At a ceremony yesterday in Washington, the Energy Department transferred the first set of radiological detection equipment to first responders under a new DOE-Justice Department pilot project called the Homeland Defense Equipment Reuse (HDER) program.
The Defense Department's top leadership is preparing to jettison cumbersome regulations that have controlled program development and acquisition for decades in favor of a set of guidelines proponents say are aimed at introducing a dramatic cultural shift in Pentagon buying practices, Inside the Pentagon has learned.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) has asked fiscal year 2003 defense appropriations conferees to provide $25 million for radio upgrades to F-15 aircraft flying homeland security missions.
The Office and Management and Budget has asked federal agencies to review and "validate" their past homeland security and antiterrorism activities, then provide detailed budgetary and programmatic information for such programs with their fiscal year 2004 budget requests, according to an Aug. 8 memorandum from OMB Director Mitchell Daniels.
Secretary of State Colin Powell last week designated the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) a foreign terrorist organization as defined by U.S. law, bringing the number of such groups to 34, according to a State Department announcement.
Two National Nuclear Security Administration laboratories in New Mexico will jointly receive nearly $76 million to design and construct buildings that will house the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), according to NNSA officials.
The Pentagon last week sent Congress proposed legislation to create a new assistant secretary position for homeland defense.
China is providing rogue nations with technology to develop weapons of mass destruction and related delivery systems, thereby threatening U.S. security interests in the Middle East and Asia, concludes the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Security Review Commission in a report released today.
The Energy Department, Environmental Protection Agency and South Carolina officials have agreed to accelerate environmental cleanup efforts at the Savannah River Site, a nuclear weapons facility in that state, DOE announced today.