Flaws in the system.
I read with great interest Steve Ritea's "Going It Alone" piece in the August/September issue of AJR (Drop Cap). The article rightly praises Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay of the Knight Ridder chain for their excellent reporting challenging the administration's claims vis-a-vis Iraq's pre-war stockpiles of weapons of mass...

ARAB-US RELATIONS - Oct 6 - Iraq Did Not Have WMD - Duelfer.
In a long -awaited 1,000 page report likely to be cited by both sides in next month's US Presidential election, the US's top weapons inspector Charles Duelfer concludes Saddam Hussein's regime has no WMD since 1991 and no active programmes to produce them. The report from Charles Duelfer, appointed...

ARABS-ISRAEL - Mar. 28 - Intelligence On Iraq Hit.
A parliamentary subcommittee on Israel's intelligence criticises the country's intelligence services, saying the agencies over-estimated Iraq's weapons programmes before last year's war because they were unable to obtain "hard facts". It points to the same kinds of inaccurate assessments on WMD that have also prompted formal inquiries in the...

Water-purification filter.
A nanoscale ceramic fibre is to be used in a sterilization filter capable of converting recycled water on a space station into purified drinking water. The development of the sterilization filter is the subject of a recently announced Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract issued by the...

Machinists Union Announces Support of National Missile Defense Program.
WASHINGTON, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today announced their support for the national missile defense program. "In the next 15 years, rogue states with chemical, nuclear or biological weapons will also have missiles capable of reaching American cities. Prudence...

Target U.S.A.
AMERICA'S ACHILLES HEEL: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack by Richard A. Falkenrath, Robert D. Newman, and Bradley A. Thayer The MIT Press, $22.50 "L.A. BOMBER PLEDGES GAS ATTACK" was the frightening headline that appeared in the Aug. 15,...

Disarmament: stalled processes and missed opportunities: Phil Goff comments on disarmament issues with special reference to the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission Report and the Small Arms and Light Weapons Review Conference.
Disarmament and non-proliferation have long been key elements of New Zealand's foreign policy agenda. We have looked to the multilateral system to further our disarmament and non-proliferation agenda. We are active in the United Nations, particularly in forums such as the Conference on Disarmament and the International Atomic Energy...

60 ways to leave your WMDs.
Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, now chair of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission in Sweden, presented the commission's report to world leaders in June. The report, titled "Weapons of Terror," puts forth 60 concrete steps for ridding the world of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, based on...

NIH AWARDS PHARMATHENE UP TO $13.9 MIL FOR ANTHRAX ANTI-TOXIN.
PharmAthene, Inc. (AMEX: PIP), a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, and Medarex, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDX), a leading monoclonal antibody company, have announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the...

The United Nations disarmament yearbook.
9211422531 The United Nations disarmament yearbook. Ed. by Department for Disarmament Affairs. United Nations Publications 2006 506 pages $30.00 Paperback Disarmament, study series; 30 JZ5588 Continuing its three decades...