Nuclear Agency: Air Defenses Impractical
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Federal regulators plunged into an energy and national security controversy yesterday by ruling that the nation's 103 nuclear power plants do not need to protect themselves from potential attacks by terrorists using airplanes.
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Bush administration efforts to screen U.S.-bound cargo for radioactive weapons are unlikely to stop a determined militant group from smuggling nuclear material onto American soil, experts said on Thursday.
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Western governments must take seriously the possibility of terrorists exploding a nuclear bomb as the necessary materials and know-how become easier to acquire, security analysts argue in two new reports.
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DHS wants to protect commercial airliners from shoulder-fired missiles with drones orbiting over airports, according to Defense Daily. In Danger Room.
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Too heavy for the bomb racks, apparently The World War II style 14-tonne conventional bunker-busting penetrator bomb being developed for the US air force has hit development snags, according to reports. Entry to service will be delayed, and costs have risen.â¦
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The order to destroy a disabled satellite before it falls from orbit carries opportunity, but also potential embarrassment, for the advocates of a missile defense program.
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Russian long-range bombers which this  month resumed their Soviet-era practice of flying long-range  patrols near NATO airspace are not armed with nuclear weapons,  a senior air force commander said on Monday.
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For a U.S. military increasingly dependent on sophisticated satellites for communicating, gathering intelligence and guiding missiles, the possibility that those space-based systems could come under attack has become a growing worry -- and the perceived need to defend them ever more urgent. And...
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A tester for the Transportation Security Administration  slides a simulated explosive into an elastic back support. The mock bomb is as slim as a wallet; its fuse, the size of a cigarette. He eventually makes his way to airport security -- and slips through. The mock bomb goes undetected.
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An Air Force B-52 bomber flew across the central United States last week with six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads that were mistakenly attached to the airplane's wing, defense officials said yesterday.
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A U.S. bomber mistakenly flew with at least five nuclear warheads over the United States last week, but the Air Force on Wednesday said the flight never threatened public safety.
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Analysis: Just as the U.S. missile-defense system has yet to prove itself effective, so too have Washington's policies for dealing with the reclusive regime
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Enough weapons-grade plutonium to make more than 15,000 nuclear bombs will be vulnerable to hijacking by terrorists and rogue states as the result of a disarmament initiative.
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For months, homeland security officials have privately debated how to blunt criticism of their planned aviation screening system that passengers and airlines complained was overly intrusive.
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Some critics question proposed federal spending hikes for nuclear research.
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The selection of a basic design for what could become a new generation of U.S. nuclear warheads has drawn immediate opposition from some key members of Congress.
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A US military unit that wouldn't make a risky delivery poses a challenge to discipline.