U.S. study urges firmer guard against atom terrorism
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Some sites with bomb-grade uranium have no more security than a night watchman and chain-link fence, researchers said on Wednesday, warning against complacency in deterring nuclear theft and terrorism.
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Federal regulators' narrow approach to solving one of the United States' biggest post-Sept. 11 fears -- a terrorist flying a plane into a nuclear power plant -- is under attack for adding to public safety concerns.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on Saturday called on countries to find and secure nuclear and other dangerous material to keep it out of the hands of terrorists.
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Foiled terror attacks in Britain and a history of summertime terrorism have U.S. authorities practicing extra vigilance, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Monday.
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Making nuclear power plants crash-proof to an airliner attack by terrorists is impracticable, and it's up to the military to avert such an assault
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The world must take immediate action against the real threat of nuclear terrorism to prevent a September 11-style outrage, the head of the UN's atomic energy watchdog agency warned.
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The United States will ask countries  that possess or have produced bomb-useable nuclear material to  join in a new effort to keep it out of the hands of extremists,  Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said on Wednesday.
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A senior U.S. official said on Thursday  that satellite images of a suspected nuclear site in Iran  demonstrated its intention to develop atomic weapons, but other  U.S. officials questioned the strength of the claim.
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Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab are responsible for ensuring that U.S. nuclear weapons are safe and reliable. Using the massive computing power of BlueGene/L, they plan to simulate the explosion of an aging nuclear bomb in 3-D.
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Interceptor missiles deployed in Poland as part of a US missile defense shield would be fast enough to target Russian intercontinental missiles, contrary to US assurances, a US researcher said Thursday.
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Human security and technologies from cell phones to weather forecasts are more at risk than ever from anti-satellite weapons and space junk, said a research report released Friday.
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Anti-missile technology, common on  military aircraft, is too costly for use on U.S. commercial  airliners to thwart shoulder-fired rocket attacks by al Qaeda  or others, a study said on Tuesday.
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U.S. anti-missile technology is  still too costly to install on America's passenger airlines to  guard against Al Qaeda using shoulder-fired missiles to shoot  down the planes, according to a study on Tuesday.
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Despite urgings from Congress and the Sept. 11 commission, U.S. commercial jets remain vulnerable to suicide bombers, aviation security experts said.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration said yesterday that studies have concluded that the plutonium used to trigger U.S. nuclear warheads and bombs will remain reliable for about 100 years, far longer than had been believed.
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ELEANOR HALL: The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency overnight which warned that sensitive weapons technology may have made its way from Iraq onto the nuclear black market has prompted concerned responses from both Britain and the United
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Existing technology to resist a shoulder-fired-missile attack on a commercial aircraft is too expensive and unreliable, according to a Rand Corp. study released Tuesday.