'Be ready for chemical, biological weapons'.
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Shivraj Patil on Monday asked security forces to equip and train themselves to counter chemical and biological weapons which may be used by terrorists in future. Though he did not specify whether the Centre had intelligence inputs about such attacks, he urged...

`Dangerously vulnerable'.
Byline: The Register-Guard The next Congress and administration must waste no time in addressing some perilously neglected needs of homeland security. A new independent study by the bipartisan Partnership for a Secure America says the United States remains "dangerously vulnerable" to chemical, biological and nuclear...

Did we get lied into war? Did the Bush administration use deliberate deception to bring America into war with Iraq? The Senate Intelligence Committee's June 2008 report may get us closer to the truth.
On June 5, the Senate Intelligence Committee, concluding five years of investigations (and partisan disagreements), released its report about whether the Bush administration had based its decision to attack Iraq on valid intelligence estimates or had lied us into war. The New York Times summed up the report: "The...

Why Iraq was inevitable.
In this essay, Dr. Arthur Herman, author of The Idea of Decline in Western History, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and Gandhi and Churchill: Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, assesses the invasion of Iraq from a broad perspective, one informed by closer...

What we achieved in Iraq.
ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, the world changed. It changed irrevocably for many people throughout the world and for none more so than the citizens of the USA when 3000 innocent civilians were murdered in a terrorist attack on New York and Washington. Within a few days, Prime Minister John...

A military-commission trial finally took place.
A military-commission trial finally took place. The tribunal, assimilating the anti-war Left's critique of it, seemed bent on proving it could be even more defendant-friendly than a civilian court. Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguard and confidant, apprehended in possession of surface-to-air missiles and Qaeda code references for...

The drinking water security and safety amendments of 2002: is America's drinking water infrastructure safer four years later?
INTRODUCTION I. WHAT'S AT STAKE? EVERYBODY DRINKS BOTTLED WATER THESE DAYS ANYHOW A. The Importance of Water B. What Are We Trying to Protect? II. WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM? A. Biological Weapons: B. Chemical Weapons: C. Nuclear/Radiological Weapons: D. Cyber Attack: E. Conventional Weapons: F....

U.S. fails to recognize effects of `collateral' damage.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Anthony Biglan and Dennis Embry For The Register-Guard Prevailing views about the "war" on terror are contrary to scientific understanding of human behavior. Human beings who are traumatized by attack become highly motivated to counterattack. Yet U.S. leaders pursue a strategy that pays...

Education, outreach, and codes of conduct to further the norms and obligations of the chemical weapons convention (IUPAC technical report).
Graham S. Pearson and Peter Mahaffy Pure and Applied Chemistry Vol. 78, No. 11, pp. 2169-2192, 2006 doi:10.1351/pac200678112169 The 2002 IUPAC evaluation of scientific and technological advances relevant to the operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) included a recommendation that more education and outreach should be...

Playing with fire.
It is now official: Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The preemptive strike against his despotic regime was without foundation. However, the threat of chemical and biological warfare it seems, will not go away. Now, Iraq's insurgents are experimenting with similar deadly materials to the ones Saddam...