Without an energy plan, security is tenuous.
Byline: JOHN C. RINGLE For The Register-Guard ANYONE WHO THINKS this country no longer faces a threat to its energy security should consider that next to Saudi Arabia, Iraq is our largest source of oil from the Middle East. The United States depends on Iraq for about...

TRAVEL SECURITY NEWS UPDATE.
Worldwide caution, this April 29, 2004 announcement is being updated to remind U.S. citizens of the continuing threat of terrorist actions and anti-American violence against U.S. citizens and interests overseas. This supersedes the Worldwide Caution dated March 23, 2004 and expires on October 23, 2004. The U.S. Department of...

Russian Federation military policy for provision of international information security.
At the present day, in consequence of the unarrested technological revolution in the IT domain, the pervasive quality changes are taking place in the weapons and military equipment trends of foreign states. Orientation to the designing of multifarious information onslaught means against the opposing force is one of the...

Robot wars.
Many armies, and police forces, have long used unmanned ground vehicles to conduct hazardous explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) missions, but did not require the robot to be fast or particularly robust. This is soon to change as a new generation of fast, agile robots will be entrusted with a...

New Professional Journal Launched to Address Disaster and Emergency Medicine.
WESTON, Mass., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- American Journal of Disaster Medicine, a new publication will start in 2006. This publication is an outgrowth of our Journal of Emergency Management and is designed to meet the formidable challenges faced by physicians and medical professionals in a post 9/11, Katrina world,...

BY DEFINITION: Chemical Weapons.
SciTech21-18 October 2006-BY DEFINITION: Chemical Weapons(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Organophosphorus nerve agents, or anti-cholinesterase agents, were discovered in the 1930s following intensive research into new insecticides, and their discovery represents the beginning of modern chemical warfare. The nerve agents cause toxicity by binding to and...

BIOHAZARD.
BIOHAZARD By Ken Alibek Random House $24.95 KEN ALIBEK'S BIOHAZARD IS really two books. One is "the chilling true story of the largest covert biological weapons program in the world," as the dust jacket proclaims, by a young Soviet doctor, a descendant of ancient Kazakh khans and...

The new sovereignty and the old constitution: the chemical weapons convention and the Appointments Clause.
A noted scholar on foreign affairs law has declared, "[n]o provision in any treaty has been held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and few have been seriously challenged there.(1) The Constitution appears to subject treaties and executive agreements to the same limitations that apply to all other actions of...

Lessons Learned A Half-Century of Experimenting on Humans.
Just a few months after Richard Nixon left the White House in disgrace, the country's confidence in its institutions was further undermined by news stories about clandestine CIA activities within the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. A congressional committee under Senator Frank Church of Idaho and a...

The day is rained oil.
For most of us who served in the Persian Gulf in 1990-91 the war never ended, it only came home. Upon our return many of us had and are experiencing a slow progression of debilitating chronic symptoms and various illnesses and diseases. More than 11,000 British and American veterans...