Local Custom Metal Fabricator Finds Niche in High-End Applications.
Conveyance Systems, Special Fabrications Core of Operations at RISI Industries GREENVILLE, S.C., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- What do decommissioning of chemical weapons from the Cold War and the junk mail in your mailbox have in common? Odds are both passed through conveyance equipment manufactured in...

Traces Of Syrian Nuclear Reactor Vanish.
The New York Times on Oct. 25 reported that new commercial satellite photographs showed a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel on Sept. 6 no longer bore any obvious traces of what analysts said was a partly built nuclear reactor. The paper said two photographs, taken...

Maritime drones--back to the future? One of the many panaceas for modern naval operations is the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which offers the ship commander his own means of aerial reconnaissance over both land and sea. The UAV--or drone--is regarded as a major tool in littoral naval operations, but what is emerging is a concept that was viewed as absolete some 60 years ago.
The advantage of the UAV is that it provides a relatively low cost, expendable platform for reconnaissance, surveillance and observation. Navies first acquired manned aircraft for this role during the First World War, indeed back in 1918 almost every British battleship and cruiser could carry reconnaissance aircraft able to...

Radioactive waste and Russia's Northern Fleet: sinking the principles of international environmental law.
Communication with the Russian military on the Kola Peninsula is poor. We can understand their situation, but the problems of nuclear waste there are so great that they have to be solved. A catastrophe in the North would affect the whole of Europe. Jorgen Kosmo, Norwegian Defense...

The US Navy's BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile; the problem weapon for arms control negotiators.
The US Navy's BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missile The Problem Weapon for Arms Control Negotiators Under the terms of the INF (Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty signed in December 1987 between the Soviet Union and the United States all land-based, medium-range, offensive guided missiles were to be...

Nuclear war and nuclear peace. (reprint, 1966).
9781412807586 Nuclear war and nuclear peace. (reprint, 1966) Harkabi, Yehoshafat. Ed. by Alan Dowty and Derek Orlans. Trans. by Yigal Shenkman. Transaction Publishers 2008 303 pages $34.95 Paperback UF767 Most treatises...

Police firearms instruction; problems and practices.
9781420065060 Police firearms instruction; problems and practices. Grassi, Richard. CRC / Taylor & Francis 2009 248 pages $59.95 Hardcover HV8142 Practitioner Grassi makes the point that although firearm instruction is one...

The United Nations disarmament yearbook; v.32: 2007; 2v.
9789211422603 The United Nations disarmament yearbook; v.32: 2007; 2v. Ed. by Office for Disarmament Affairs. United Nations Publications 2008 482 pages $65.00 Paperback JZ5588 Produced annually by the Office of Disarmament...

LEBANON - Oct 16 - Hizbullah Basks In Its Authority.
In spite of his modest title of labour minister and his spartan office in a poor neighbourhood of Beirut, Muhammad Fneish speaks with an authority bordering on overconfidence, an attitude that testifies to the power of Hizbullah, the militant Shi'ite group, in Lebanon. Fneish, a senior party official who...

LEBANON - Oct 27 - Nasrallah And Hariri Break The Ice During Secret Weekend Meeting.
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Future Movement head Saad Hariri have jointly expressed "total adherence and respect for both the Taif Accord and the Doha Accord" after a long-awaited meeting over the weekend. The two met secretly on Oct 26 in a bid to mend fences between the...