Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon of Mass Destruction
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By Winkler, Jonathan Reed  Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon of Mass Destruction. By Joel A. Vilensky with Pandy R. Sinish. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-253-3412-6. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xviii, 213.
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Clearing unexploded cluster bombs used   by Israel in Lebanon during the month-long war, many of them   U.S.-manufactured, could take 10 years, a British-based   demining group said on Friday.
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By BEN STOCKING  DANANG, Vietnam - More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 -- U.N. weapons inspectors stumbled upon evidence of Saddam Hussein's elusive weapons of mass destruction: a vial of potentially lethal chemical gas that was stored in a U.N. shipping crate in Midtown Manhattan more than 10 years ago and forgotten, U.N. officials announced...
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"God's Crucible Â Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215" (W. W. Norton, 475 pages, $29.95), by David Levering Lewis: Though it all happened 1,300 years ago well Â some of it less than 600 years ago Â Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis says a long military-religious campaign bore seeds of troubled 21st century history.
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How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine.
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS  Contact: Mickey Morales of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, +1-410-436-2583, +1-410-322-8495 (Mobile), miguel.l.morales@us.army.mil   ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S.
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Siblings are the first ever to be convicted for sending boatloads of junk e-mail pushing bogus products. Also: Microsoft takes MSN music download on a Euro trip....  Nokia begins legal battle against European counterparts.... and more.
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By Lyndsey Lewis, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb.
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A 26-year-old Web designer from Pueblo, Colo., had better luck than the inspectors who failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It took seven months, but Tristan Walker won a treasure hunt called "Find Those Weapons: The Hunt for the Real WMD."
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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Twenty years later, Union Carbide is still shortchanging the victims of the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster. On Dec. 3, 1984, a toxic gas leak from Union Carbide&#39;s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killed at least 7,000 people.
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A search for investing opportunities in military and defense.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Robert E. DiMichele, USAEC Public Affairs Officer, +1- 410-436-2556, Robert.DiMichele@us.army.mil   ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Feb.
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The first bomb fatality in one of the U.S. Armyâs new armored vehicles has raised questions on its design.
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Today, the Lancet medical journal published a report which concludes that 100,000 civilians died in the US-led invasion of Iraq. This is an incredibly high estimate, and at first may seem too farfetched not to be propaganda. But it cannot easily be dismissed. The report's authors are researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The Lancet is a highly-respected, peer-reviewed publication. The report appears to be a serious academic attempt to study the public health consequences of the invasion.  Also, The New Republic magazine has conducted an interview with Prof. Gilbert Burnham, the report's main author.   Excerpts and comments below.
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A glance at Chechnya and its conflict: