Terrorist threats: U.S. supports more research on detection of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

HAWTHORNE, Calif., Aug. 31  — Research into detecting nuclear and other materials with potential for use in weapons of mass destruction received more pledges of government support after a Californian security electronics firm received contracts worth up to $12 million for developing new detection devices and techniques, says a report of [...]

U.S. National Security: Many americans joined global terrorism.

Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and its interests abroad, the president’s most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security said Thursday in an interview with The Washington Times.
“There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different [...]

U.S. intel told Mexican Navy: Cartel violence will attack Mexico City, aiming to bomb buildings and government officials.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s navy seized 45 pounds (20 kilograms) of powerful explosives Wednesday in a bohemian residential neighborhood in the capital after exchanging information with U.S. authorities.
Four Mexicans suspected of links to organized crime were being questioned after a pre-dawn raid on a hostel in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood, [...]

Only FBI is prepared for WMD attack in the U.S., says official audit.

The FBI appears to be ready for a chemical, biological or radiological terrorist attack, but the rest of the Justice Department “is not prepared,” according to a blistering audit released Tuesday.

The report by Glenn A. Fine, Justice’s inspector general, singled out the department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for particular scorn, suggesting that [...]

Obama’s national security strategy: Pros and Cons.

President Obama’s national security strategy released by the White House on Thursday, tackles a delicate but unavoidable question: How do we respond to security challenges in an era of financial distress at home and reordering of political power abroad?
In Obama’s case, his sober and comprehensive 52-page strategy incorporates the new realities and breaks with past strategies [...]

Obama´s Nuclear Summit wants secure world from terrorists with nuclear weapons.

Many experts warn that there is a growing danger that terrorists or criminals will obtain small amounts of highly enriched uranium and build a crude nuclear weapon.
That is why securing the world’s stocks of highly enriched uranium, also known as HEU, and weapons-grade plutonium is the goal of a two-day nuclear summit involving leaders from [...]

NATO in favor of nuclear weapons and anti-missile defence system.

WARSAW —  NATO needs to develop an anti-missile defence system as a deterrence, the alliance chief said Friday, while seeking to assure Moscow that the organisation posed no threat to Russia. 
“We must develop an effective missile defence,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told an international conference in the Polish capital.”In the coming years we [...]