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Enriching Uranium in Iran

While experts do not believe Iran has the intellectual capacity to manufacture the fuel rods required for its research reactor in Tehran as it claims is its aim, it is capable of making enough enriched uranium for a weapon “within six months or less,” states a March 3rd report from the Institute for Science and [...]

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Posted in: Iran, National Security, Non-Proliferation

Arctic Shelf Releases More Methane Than Previously Thought

Recent studies led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists show that the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is not as impermeable as once believed.  It is instead leaking the large amounts of methane gas (30 times more potent than carbon dioxide) it stores.
This is particularly concerning because, unlike many other deposits, it exists in shallow waters.  [...]

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Posted in: Climate Change

The Warmest Years on Record

Recent global warming studies published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA reach similar conclusions.  The last 10 years are the warmest on record, and 2010 temperatures are positioned to surpass even these numbers.  Reports the NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies:
Although 2008 was the coolest year of the decade, due to [...]

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Posted in: Climate Change

The Planes of Narco-traffickers

As Reuters reported late last month, it was about two years ago that a Department of Homeland Security official first brought “’the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11’” to the attention of his supervisors.  Yet since this time, the U.S. government has taken little to no action to abate the [...]

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Posted in: National Security, Terrorism

Tensions in India and Pakistan Could Lead to Regional Instability

Groups under Al-Qaeda’s ‘syndicate’ in Afghanistan and Pakistan are trying ‘to destabilise not just Afghanistan, not just Pakistan, but potentially the whole region by provoking a conflict perhaps between India and Pakistan through some provocative act.’
               – Secretary Robert Gates, New Delhi, January 20, 2010
It was just over a year ago that India demonstrated its [...]

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Posted in: National Security, Pakistan, Terrorism

The Implementation of Sustainable Security Measures Demands a TSA Head

According to one U.S.  official, “blond-haired, blue-eyed types,” with American passports, are among those training in Al-Qaeda’s Yemen camps, reports the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Al Qaeda in Yemen and Somalia: A Ticking Time Bomb, released yesterday.
If it was not clear already, this information only makes it only more obvious that racially profiling at [...]

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Posted in: Homeland Security, National Security, Terrorism

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