2011 Archive - FAS in the News

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2011:

Dec 31: Stars and Stripes, "A Case for the Guantanamo Exemption"
Dec 29: Wired, "2011: The Year Intellectual Property Trumped Civil Liberties"
Dec 29: Federal Register, "NARA Rule on the Declassification of National Security Information"
Dec 26: Associated Press, "Decades Later, A Cold War Secret Is Revealed"
Dec 26: New York Times, "Science and Censorship: A Duel Lasting Centuries"
Dec 26: ABC News, "The Benefits of Video Games"
Dec 26: News Observer, "Gingrich, Author Cause a Stir With EMP Theory"
Dec 23: New York Times, "How to Control Libya Missiles? Buy Them Up"
Dec 23: Politico, "Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks Case: The Larger Issue"
Dec 23: AOL News - Defense, "Your Move, Beijjing: Big Year Ahead for Chinese Navy"
Dec 22: McClatchy Newspapers, "Bradley Manning Hearing Ends With No Clear Sign of Harm Done to U.S."
Dec 22: National Defense Magazine, "Solar Flares Unlikely to Spark Electrical Armageddon"
Dec 21: Reuters, "Why Are We Censoring Bird Flu Science?"
Dec 20: Reuters, "Timeline on Iran Bomb Narrows, But Barely"
Dec 20: Salon, "The Bradley Manning Treatment"
Dec 20: The Times News, "Waiting and Watching in North Korea"
Dec 19: Washington Post, "Pyongyang's Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons" (Sources Federation of American Scientists)
Dec 19: The Orange County Register, "Kim Jong Il's Death Brings Dangers, Opportunities"
Dec 19: Huffington Post, "U.S. Missile Defense Fantasy is Souring U.S.-Russian Reset"
Dec 18: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "How the Reset Was Upset"
Dec 16: National Journal, "WikiLeaks' Collateral Damage"
Dec 15: Associated Press, "U.S. Set to Try Soldier Over Leaks, Targets Assange"
Dec 15: Washington Times, "Manning Documents Reveal Security Lapses"
Dec 14: National Public Radio, "Mysterious Events Leave Tehran Feeling Under Siege"
Dec 12: Discovery News, "Is Newt Gingrich's EMP Doomsday a Reality?"
Dec 12: New York Times, "Among Gingrich's Passions, A Doomsday Vision"
Dec 10: The Sydney Morning Herald, "U.S. Students Dig Up Beijing's Secret Nuclear Stockpile"
Dec 6: Washington Post, "Paul M. Doty, Harvard Scientist Who Warned Against Nuclear Arms, Dies at 91"
Dec 6: Foreign Policy, "Paul Doty, 1920 - 2011"
Dec 5: Financial Times, "Flawed U.S. Missile Defence Plan Should be Abandoned"
Dec 3: Washington Post, "National Archives Works on Declassifying Massive Backlog of Documents"
Dec 2: Global Security Newswire, "Analysts Question Research on China Nuclear Arms"
Dec 2: Agence France-Presse, "U.S. Experts Skeptical on Report of China Nuclear Force"
Nov 30: Christian Science Monitor, "A 'New START' to an Arms Race Between the U.S. and Russia?"
Nov 30: Global Security Newswire, "Underground Construction Points to Larger Chinese Nuke Arsenal"
Nov 29: Washington Post, "Evidence of China's Nuclear Storage System"
Nov 29: Reuters, "For Iran, the Sanctions Price May Be Worth Paying"
Nov 28: Washington Post - Federal Eye blog, "Obama Wants Better Digital Archive of Federal Records"
Nov 28: Washington Post, "Obama Ordering Agencies to Keep Better digital Records"
Nov 25: Baltimore Sun, "Bill to Tighten Espionage Act Alarms Whistle-Blowing Advocates"
Nov 23: Washington Post, "Medvedev Threatens to Target U.S. Missile Shield in Europe If No Deal Is Reached"
Nov 23: The Hill, "Latin America, Cyber Top List of Below Radar Threats"
Nov 22: Associated Press, "Debt-reduction 'Supercommittee' Hid in Plain Sight"
Nov 18: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "Seyed Houssein Mousavian: The West is Pushing Iran in the Wrong Direction"
Nov 17: Huffington Post, "Defense Science Board Report Stresses Need for Climate Change Study in Intelligence Community"
Nov 17: Hindustan Times, "Real Threat Assessment of Pak Nukes Not Yet Made"
Nov 16: Global Security Newswire, "Danger of Trafficked Nuclear, Radiological Materials Lingers"
Nov 16: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "Fatwas For Fission: Assessing the Terrorist Threat to Pakistan's Nuclear Assets"
Nov 16: Gawker, "CIA Won't Give Ex-Agent a Copy of the Book He Wrote Because It's Classified"
Nov 15: Washington Post - In The Loop, "How Do Obama's Cabinet Members Rate?"
Nov 15: Mother Jones, "Climate Change Spy vs. Spy?"
Nov 14: USA Today, "Defense Science Panel: Climate a National Security Threat"
Nov 14: Wall Street Journal, "Australia PM Calls for End of India Uranium Ban"
Nov 14: Nature, "Iran's Nuclear Plan Revealed"
Nov 14: Washington Post - In The Loop, "Nixon Comes Through Yet Again"
Nov 14: New York Post, "Map to U.S. Nuke Stash"
Nov 13: O Estado de São Paulo, "Relatório Sobre Irã Amplia Cisão Entre Potências" (Brazil)
Nov 12: Al Jazeera, "Iran: When Newsrooms Go Nuclear"
Nov 11: Agence France-Presse, "Pentagon Weighs Cuts to Nuclear Arsenal"
Nov 11: Inside Iran, "Q+A: IAEA Report Indicates Iran's Slow Development on Nuclear Program"
Nov 10: The Atlantic, "It's Not Too Late to Peacefully Keep Iran From the Bomb"
Nov 10: Newsweek, "Former CIA General Counsel Is In The Crosshairs in Leak Probe"
Nov 10: RT.com, "U.S. Spending More On Nukes Now Than During Cold War"
Nov 9: Voice of America, "The New IAEA Report on Iran's Nuclear Program" Part I (Persian)
Nov 9: Voice of America, "The New IAEA Report on Iran's Nuclear Program" Part II (Persian)
Nov 8: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Blueprint for New Nuclear Arms Cuts Expected By Year's End"
Nov 7: Reuters, "Q+A: UN Report on Iran's Nuclear Program"
Nov 7: Federal Times, "News Digest- November 7"
Nov 6: Los Angeles Times, "Republicans Urge Herman Cain to Tell All in Harassment Flap"
Nov 4: Global Security Newswire, "Obama to Seek New International Penalties on Iran"
Nov 4: Global Security Newswire, "China Seen Deploying New Nuke-Ready Ballistic Missiles"
Nov 4: The Times of India, "Panic Over China's Four New Nuclear Ballistic Missiles"
Nov 2: Global Security Newswire, "Obama Urged to Defend Nuclear Nonproliferation Funds"
Nov 2: Gizmodo.com, "Four Cranky Crazy Old Men Busted for Toxic Terror Plot"
Nov 1: Associated Press, "As Assange Awaits Ruling, WikiLeaks Faces Its Fate"
Nov 1: Foreign Policy, "Arms Control Groups Appeal to Obama for Help With Congress"
Oct 28: Association Press, "U.S. Intel Agencies Tightening Belts in 2011"
Oct 28: Defense News, "Slight Drop in U.S. Funding for Intel Programs"
Oct 28: Global Security Newswire, "Some Nuclear Experts Question Ramp-up in U.S. Tritium Production"
Oct 28: United Press International (UPI), "Israel Fears Berlin Could Scrap Sub Deal"
Oct 27: Washington Post, "U.S. Keeps Major Lead Over Russia in Nuclear Weapons"
Oct 27: Science Insider, "U.S. Weapons Lab Gets a New Director"
Oct 26: USA Today, "U.S.-made 'Monster' Nuclear Warhead B53 Dismantled"
Oct 26: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Releases New START Nuke Data"
Oct 26: Huffington Post, "Washington Should Not Let the New Iran Crisis Go To Waste"
Oct 26: The Telegraph, "U.S. Dismantles Last Big Cold War Nuclear Bomb"
Oct 26: National Public Radio - The Two-Way blog, "Dismantling the Biggest Nuclear Bomb"
Oct 25: National Public Radio - All Things Considered, "Cold War Bomb to be Dismantled"
Oct 25: Associated Press, "U.S.'s Biggest Nuclear Bomb Dismantled in Texas"
Oct 25: Agence France-Presse, "U.S. Dismantles Last Big Cold War Nuclear Bomb"
Oct 25: Wired UK, “Last Nuclear ‘Monster Weapon’ Gets Dismantled”
Oct 25: Daily Mail (UK), “Dismantling the mega-nuke: America begins to take apart B53 that was 600 times more powerful than bomb that flattened Hiroshima”
Oct 25: Gawker, “Goodnight Sweet ‘Monster Weapon’”
Oct 24: Wall Street Journal, "How Many Nukes Does China Have?"
Oct 24: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. to Finish Disassembling Massive Nukes"
Oct 24: Bloomberg, "U.S. Dismantles Last 10,000 Pound Cold War-era Nuclear Bomb"
Oct 21: Science Insider, "143 New Patents That Won't See the Light of Day"
Oct 20: Global Security Newswire, "Looming Iran Assessment Worries Russia"
Oct 19: New York Times, "Administration Proposes Rule for Opening Up Historic Grand Jury Transcripts"
Oct 19: Reuters, "Russia Concerned About Iran Nuclear Report: Diplomats"
Oct 19: Council on Foreign Relations, "The Effort to Isolate Iran"
Oct 19: Huffington Post, "The Bottom Line Case for Zeroing Out Nuclear Weapons"
Oct 18: National Journal, "IAEA Should Release Iran Info, White House Says"
Oct 17: Reuters, "Analysis - Iran-U.S. Tension Rising Ahead of Elections"
Oct 17: Wired - Danger Room, "U.S. Spies Facing Tens of Billions in Budget Cuts"
Oct 17: Global Security Newswire, "Experts Divided on Impact to U.S. of Russia, China Nuke Modernization"
Oct 14: Reuters Blog, "Obama and America's Culture of Secrecy"
Oct 14: Gulf News, "Will Israel Bomb Iran Without Notifying the U.S.?"
Oct 12: United Press International (UPI), "Nixon Watergate Testimony Set for Release"
Oct 11: Global Security Newswire, "U.N. Agency to Air Data on Iranian Nuclear Missile Concerns"
Oct 11: Huffington Post, "Global Zero Nuclear Summit Aims to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Worldwide"
Oct 10: Reuters, "IAEA Seen Giving More Detail on Iran Atom Bomb Fears"
Oct 10: The Guardian - Global Security Blog, "Obama Urged to Accept Iranian Nuclear Offer"
Oct 10: Washington Post - In the Loop, "Richard Nixon Texts and Tapes Will Be Released Soon"
Oct 9: Huffington Post, "An Iran Policy for the 99%: Yes to the Medical Nuke Deal"
Oct 8: Federal Times, "News Briefs"
Oct 7: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Should Accept Iran's Latest Uranium Enrichment Offer, Experts Say"
Oct 7: Asia Times, "Pressure Builds on Iran at Nuclear Watchdog"
Oct 7: Federal Times, "Executive Order Cracks Down on Classified Leaks"
Oct 6: Huffington Post, "Pressure Mounts on Obama Administration to Release Legal Justification for al-Awlaki Killing"
Oct 5: IPS News, "Pressure Builds on Iran at Nuclear Watchdog Agency"
Oct 5: Society of Environmental Journalists, "Why Does the CIA Keep Climate a Secret?"
Oct 4: New York Times, "A Closed-Mouth Policy Even on Open Secrets"
Oct 4: Washington Post - The Fact Checker, "Bachmann's Claim that China 'Blinded' U.S. Satellites"
Oct 4: Jezebel, "Michelle Bachmann Claims China Blinding U.S. Satellites With Science"
Oct 3: Reuters, "U.S. Cool on Iran Atom Offer, Experts See Chance"
Oct 1: The International, "Center of American Power in the Middle East Shifts From 'New Dawn'"
Sep 30: Wall Street Journal, "Panel's War-Waste Records Sealed as Work Ends"
Sep 29: International Herald Tribune, "An Iranian Offer Worth Considering"
Sep 28: Fast Company, "Game Changer"
Sep 28: Emergency Management, "Nuclear Concern Washes Ashore Following Japan's Crisis"
Sep 23: Digital Journal, "CIA Says Global Warming Inteliggence is 'Classified'"
Sep 23: Council on Foreign Relations, "Rethinking U.S. Policy Toward Iran"
Sep 22: Wired - Threat Level, "CIA Says Global Warming Intelligence is 'Classified'"
Sep 22: Agence France-Presse, "Looted Libyan Missiles Dangerous But Difficult to Use"
Sep 21: New York Times, "'Myopic' Missile Defense"
Sep 21: Nature, "Military Surveillance Data: Shared Intelligence"
Sep 21: Federal TImes, "4.2 Million Have Security Clearances, Report Says"
Sep 21: Sioux City Journal, "Missile Test Sends Wrong Message"
Sep 20: International Herald Tribune, "The Delusion of Missile Defense" (OPED)
Sep 20: Washington Post - Checkpoint Washington, "How Many Security Clearances Have Been Issued? Nearly Enough for Everyone in the Washington Area"
Sep 20: Global Security Newswire, "Experts Question Indications of U.S. Nuclear "Hedge" Force Cuts"
Sep 20: Albuquerque Journal, "Upgrading a Nuke with No Test Drive"
Sep 20: Information Week, "Social Media Carries Risk at Disaster-Relief Time"
Sep 19: Ottawa Citizen, "U.S. to Produce "Reserve" Nuclear Warheads Over Next Two Decades"
Sep 18: Ottawa Citizen, "Nuclear Warhead Modernization Plan Ambitious and Expensive"
Sep 16: National Public Radio, "Iran's Political Infightening Ensnares 2 U.S. Hikers"
Sep 16: Huffington Post, "Lone Wolves and Home-Grown Terrorists: Experts Warn of a Growing Threat from Unusual Sources"
Sep 16: Global Security Newswire, "Latest Tumbling Satellite Fails to Warrant Space Intercept: U.S. Officials"
Sep 16: Albuquerque Journal, "The More We Change Our Nuclear Stockpile, the Less We Know It"
Sep 16: Federal Computer Week, "Social Media: A Mixed Blessing for Disaster Response"
Sep 15: Gulf News, "Ahmadinejad Looks for Confrontation with the U.S."
Sep 14: The National, "Behind the Scenes Politics at Play in Ahmadinejad's Trip"
Sep 14: Indian Express, "More Recent Overt Sign of Indigenous Hindu Terrorism"
Sep 13: The Atlantic, "On Iran's Nuclear Program, Science Contradicts Rhetoric"
Sep 13: New Scientist, "Laser Fusion Trio Team Up to Develop Clean Power"
Sep 11: Foreign Policy, "Waiting for Bushehr"
Sep 11: Seattle Times, "Does Navy Depot Pose a Danger to Public?"
Sep 10: Associated Press, "Post-9/11 Maze of Secrecy"
Sep 9: Washington Times, "Perpetual Security State"
Sep 9: CJChivers.com, "Looting of Qaddafi Muitions Depots Continues"
Sep 8: Associated Press, "U.S. Experts in Libya Amid Alarms About Missing Arms"
Sep 8: United Press International (UPI), "Libya Weapons Status 'Murky'"
Sep 8: Dayton Daily News, "A Decade Later, Terrorists Have Not Employed Nuclear Weapons"
Sep 7: New York Times, "Heat-Seeking Missiles Are Missing From Libyan Arms Stockpile"
Sep 7: Bloomberg News, "Intelligence Chairman Urges White House Action on Libyan Weapons"
Sep 6: NPR, "Has Sept. 11 Changed How Agencies Share Secrets?"
Sep 3: NPR, "WikiLeaks Now Victim of Its Own Leak"
Sep 2: The Independent, "What Has Happened to WikiLeaks?"
Sep 2: The Guardian, "Libya Warned Smugglers Are Looting Gaddafi's Guns"
Sep 2: Scientific American, "The Drone Wars: 9/11-Inspired Combat Leans Heavily on Robot Aircraft"
Aug 31: Reuters UK, "WikiLeaks Denies Charges It Put Lives in Danger"
Aug 30: Los Angeles Times, "WikiLeaks Publishes Cables Exposing Confidential Sources"
Aug 30: Agence France-Presse, "U.S. Fears Individuals at Risk After WikiLeaks Dump"
Aug 30: CBS News, "WikiLeaks Cables Reveals Diplomatic Sources"
Aug 30: CBC Radio, "Libya Weapons"
Aug 30: Radio Netherlands Worldwide, "U.S. Concerned Individuals at Risk After WikiLeaks Dump"
Aug 29: Associated Press, "Justice Department Won't Release Full Memos on George W. Bush's Warrantless Surveillance"
Aug 29: New York Times, "WikiLeaks Leaves Names of Diplomatic Sources in Cables"
Aug 29: National Public Radio, "Warrantless Surveillance Memos Stay Classified"
Aug 29: CBS News, "U.S. Warrantless Surbeillance Memos Remain Sealed"
Aug 29: Fox News, "Obama Administration Blocks Release of Bush Administration Surveillance Policy Memos"
Aug 27: Agence France-Presse, "CIA Demands Cuts to Critical 9/11 Memoir"
Aug 26: Politico - Under the Radar, "Prosecutors Make Case (Again) for Risen Testimony"
Aug 25: Wired - Danger Room, "Gadhafi's Loose Weapons Could Be "1000 Times" Worse Than Sadam's"
Aug 25: Bloomberg News, "U.S. May Shop for Libyan Missiles in Mali"
Aug 25: The Atlantic, "What Happens to Libyan Oil After Qaddafi?"
Aug 25: Japan Today, "9/11 Grip on Info Can Still Be Wacky"
Aug 24: Washington Times, "Libya's Missiles, Chemicals Worry U.S."
Aug 24: National Journal, "If Qaddafi Falls, What Happens to Libyan Oil?"
Aug 24: Willamette Week, "Mug Shot Profiteers"
Aug 22: Associated Press, "Gov't Post 9/11 Rush to Hide Data Abates, But Persists in Name of Fighting Terror"
Aug 22: AlterNet.org, "Obama Likely to Stick with Nukes"
Aug 18: Baltimore Sun, "Too Many Secrets"
Aug 18: Global Security Newswire, "Prospects Grow for Cuts to U.S. Nuclear 'Hedge Force'"
Aug 17: InterPressService, "U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Holds Fast to Status Quo"
Aug 17: Nieman Watchdog, "Is Obama's Nuclear Posture Review in Safe Hands?"
Aug 13: Albuquerque Journal, "Kirtland Commander to Retire Sept. 1"
Aug 12: Global Security Newswire, "Steps Needed to Curb Reliance on U.S. Nukes"
Aug 10: Los Angeles Times, "When Secrecy Gets Out of Hand"
Aug 9: TIME - Battleland, "Suicides, PTSD and Drug Abuse Among Combat Vets"
Aug 9: Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) Radio - Late Night Live, "Global Nuclear Update"
Aug 5: Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC), "One Plus One Friday" (program)
Aug 4: New York Times, "An Opinion by Judge on Spy Law Creates a Stir"
Aug 3: Boing Boing, "Mugshot Sites and Mugshot Removal Sites: Unholy Blackmail Symbiosis"
Aug 2: Wired - Threat Level, "Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charge You to Bury It Again"
Aug 1: New York Times, "Complaint Seeks Punishment for Classification of Documents"
Aug 1: Global Security Newswire, "Iranian Centrifuge Deployment Falls Behind Schedule"
Jul 31: Fox News Radio, "Were Historic Items Lost After 9/11 Terrorist Attacks?"
Jul 30: Associated Press, "Mystery Surrounds Loss of Records, Art on 9/11"
Jul 29: Salt Lake Tribune, "Endorse FOIA"
Jul 29: New Scientist, "The Tech That Spooks the Spooks"
Jul 29: Washington Post - Checkpoint Washington, "Government's Treatment of Alleged Leaker Thomas Drake Was "Unconscionable""
Jul 28: Wired - Threat Level, "Document: FBI Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love New Gadgets"
Jul 28: Global Security Newswire, "Norway Killer Claims Allies Are Attempting to Acquire WMD"
Jul 28: Asian Scientist Magazine, "Report by Atomic Scientists Underscore Rise of Pakistan's Nuclear Program"
Jul 27: Washington Post, "Administration Rebuffs Wyden, Udall on Surveillance Query"
Jul 26: Washington Post, "Freedom of Information Act Needs A Push"
Jul 26: New York Times - At War Blog, "Reading the Refuse: Counting Col. Qaddafi's Heat Seaking Missiles and Tracking Them Back to Their Sources"
Jul 20: PBS - Ideas in Action, "Has Nuclear Power Run Out of Power?
Jul 20: Washingtonian, "Obama Administration's Point Man to Stop Leaks"
Jul 20: Global Security Newswire, "NATO Should Limit Role of Nukes, Remove U.S. Warheads"
Jul 19: National Journal, "In Court Papers, U.S. Openly Suggests Pakistan Interested in Thermonuclear Weapons"
Jul 19: Global Security Newswire, "Court Papers Suggest Pakistani Interest in Thermonuclear Weapon"
Jul 17: Associated Press, "FBI Offers Anti-Terror Degree at Indiana-U, But Not Everyone Can Enroll"
Jul 17: Omaha World-Herald, "StratCom Battles Space Crunch"
Jul 15: Huffington Post, "While Prosecutors Nail Banks Over Offshore Tax Abuses, Lobbyists Push to Delay New IRS Rules"
Jul 13: Global Security Newswire, "FBI Establishes Graduate Degree Program in WMD Studies"
Jul 12: TIME - Battleland, "Rin Tin Tin Info: Now Off Limits"
Jul 12: Huffington Post, "House Committee Wants to Drop Proposal to Expand Offshore Drilling Oversight"
Jul 12: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "FBI, IUP Partner to Create Anti-Terror Degree Program"
Jul 11: Bloomberg News, "Panetta Presses Iraq for Decision on Keeping U.S. Troops Past End of Year"
Jul 11: Politico - Under the Radar, "Alleged CIA Leaker Wants to Subpoena Senate and Intel Panel Aides"
Jul 9: The International News (Pakistan), "Seasonal Campaign Against Pakistan Nukes Begin"
Jul 8: Associated Press, "Woman Accused of Shipping Paint to Pakistani Plant"
Jul 8: TIME - Battleland blog, "Number of Homeless Vets Dropping Sharply"
Jul 8: Global Security Newswire, "Pakistani Nuclear Controls Should Avert Any Insider Threat"
Jul 8: Salem News, "Reviewing the Powers of Intimidation & Mainstream Media Sources"
Jul 7: Global Security Newswire, "BWC Review Conference Could Revive Verification Debate, Chairman Says"
Jul 1: CNN, "Could Terrorists Take Pakistan Nukes?"
Jul 1: U.S. News & World Report, "U.S. Must Learn From Japan Nuclear Crisis"
Jul 1: Global Security Newswire, "Pakistan Seen as Having FAstest Expanding Nuke Stockpile"
Jun 30: Washington Post - Letter to the Editor, "A Good Start for Pentagon Cuts: Missile Defense"
Jun 30: HSToday, "Think Tank Identifies Growing Terrorist Threat to Pakistan's Nuke Arsenal"
Jun 29: CNN, "Iran Testing Potential Nike Missiles?"
Jun 29: Associated Press of Pakistan, "Pakistani Nukes Are Safe, U.S. Expert Says"
Jun 29: Associated Press, "Iran Conducting Secret Ballistic Missile Tests"
Jun 29: Politico, "Report: 'Neo-Taliban' Are Most Dangerous Terror Group"
Jun 29: Wall Street Journal - India Real Time, "Are Pakistan's Nukes Safe?"
Jun 29: CNN - Global Public Square, "New Report Warns on Pakistan's Nukes"
Jun 29: Business Insider, "Radicals Closer Than Ever to Pakistan's Nukes"
Jun 29: iWatch News, "Neo-Taliban Groups Rely on Bold Attacks, Military Connections"
Jun 25: Scientific American, "Is Karzai's Accusation That Coalition Forces are Polluting Afghanistan With Nuclear Material Accurate or an Over-Reaction?"
Jun 24: Washington Post, "Intelligence Spending Still Buried Deep in Budget"
Jun 22: Fox News, "Defending Against Cyber-Warfare"
Jun 22: Columbia Journalism Review, "Risen's Gripping Affidavit"
Jun 22: Global Security Newswire, "Senate Bill Echoes House Questions About Obama's Nuclear Policy"
Jun 20: Pravda, "Nuclear Present for Russia from Mr. Obama, the Peacemaker"
Jun 19: Foreign Policy, "The Tattered Germ Warfare Treaty"
Jun 17: New York Times, "U.S. Pressing Its Crackdown Against Leaks"
Jun 17: Scientific American, "Better Lasers Developed to Defend U.S. Choppers from Shoulder-Fired Missiles"
Jun 17: Belfast Telegraph, "British Experts Hunt Libya Missiles"
Jun 17: National Public Radio, "U.S. Funds Hunt for Libyan Missiles"
Jun 17: Associated Press, "U.S. Funds Hunt for Libyan Missiles"
Jun 16: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Nuke Overhaul Seen Adding New Abilities"
Jun 15: Bloomberg, "Nuclear Bomb Overhaul May Counter Obama Pledge, Anger Russia"
Jun 14: Russian Television (RT), "NATO Missile Defense Shield Not Effective"
Jun 12: Politico, "Feds' Policy on Reading WikiLeaks Docs 'Incoherent,' Critics Say"
Jun 11: Associated Press, "NSA Case Unlikely to Deter Obama's Take on Leakers"
Jun 10: Associated Press, "Ex-Spy Agency Official Strikes Plea Bargain"
Jun 10: Wall Street Journal, "Plea Deal Ends Leak Case Against Former Official"
Jun 10: Washington Post, "NSA Leak Trial Exposes Dilemma for Justice Department"
Jun 10: Baltimore Sun, "Drake Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor in NSA Espionage Case"
Jun 9: Associated Press, "U.S. Reaches Plea Deal in Classified Leaks Case"
Jun 9: New Yorker, "A Deal in the N.S.A. Case"
Jun 9: Politico, "Ex-NSA Official Thomas Drake Takes Plea Deal"
Jun 9: MSNBC.com, "Justice Case Against Alleged Leaker Collapses"
Jun 9: Washington Times, "Government's Espionage Case Against NSA Official Stumbles"
Jun 9: Global Security Newswire, "Russian Unease Over U.S. Over Missile Defense PLans 'Legitimate,' Experts Say"
Jun 9: United Press International, "Ex-NSA Official Gets Espionage Plea Deal"
Jun 9: CNN, "Will Computers Replace School Teachers?"
Jun 8: Washington Post, "Case Narrows Against Thomas Drake, ex-NSA Manager Accused of Mishandling Classified Files"
Jun 8: The Atlantic, "Iran's Nuclear Program, Charging Ahead"
Jun 8: Nature, "Computer Security: Is This the Start of Cyberwarfare?"
Jun 8: Politico, "Why Russia's Anti-Missile Defense"
Jun 8: LiveScience.com, "Beyond E Coli: The Deadly Germs Scientists Really Fear"
Jun 6: Bloomberg, "Iran Wants the Bomb and It's Well on Its Way"
Jun 6: Politico - Under the Radar, "Feds Pare Back NSA Leak Case to Shield Technology"
Jun 6: All Headline News, "Bangladesh Anthrax Outbreak a Threat to Livelihoods and Human Health"
Jun 2: The Atlantic, "Pakistan Seen Readying to Cross Nuclear Threshold"
Jun 1: Global Security Newswire, "Pakistan Seen Readying to Cross Nuclear Threshold"
May 31: Politico - Under the Radar, "Judge Plans to Shield Unclassified Info in NSA Leak Case"
May 27: Salon, "Sen. Benjamin Cardin's Impressive Feat"
May 27: Nature, "Terrorist 'Pre-Crime' Detector Field Tested in United States"
May 26: Huffington Post, "WikiLeaks Probe Ramps Up One Year After Bradley Manning's Arrest"
May 25: United Press International, "U.S. Seeks to Make Reporter on CIA Testify"
May 24: Washington Post, "Reporter Subpoenaed in Leaks Case"
May 24: Science Now, "After U.S. Pressure, Smallpox WIns Reprieve Again"
May 23: The New Yorker, "The Secret Sharer - Is Thomas Drake an Enemy of the State?"
May 23: Fox News, "Boeing, General Dynamics Find Favor in High Court After Navy Killed Contract"
May 19: National Journal, "U.S. Nuclear Agency Releases New Strategic Plan for Next Decade"
May 19: Global Security Newswire, "Former Officials Call for U.S., Russian Nuclear Transparency"
May 18: National Public Radio - All Things Considered, "WHO Looks at Destroying Smallpox Stocks"
May 18: Washington Post, "Life Span of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Will Increase Under Plan"
May 17: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "Drug Resistant Germs Lure Biotechs to Create New Antibiotics"
May 17: Wall Street Journal - Law Blog, "The Legal Wrangling Over the bin Laden Photos"
May 16: Reuters, "Analysis: Bin Laden Photo Fight Pits White House vs. Press"
May 15: Associated Press, "Libyan Combat Stymies Moves on Antiaircraft Threat"
May 15: Newsweek, "Pakistan's Nuclear Surge" (info compiled for chart)
May 13: Nature, "WHO to Decide the Fate of Smallpox Stocks"
May 13: All Headline News, "Watch Out Whistleblowers: Congress and Courts Move to Curtail Leaks"
May 12: Washington Post, "Now You See the Kabul Bank, Now You Don't"
May 12: Politico, "Deadly Exposure: The Osama bin Laden Photo Battle"
May 12: Federal Computer Week, "ODNI Report Says Office Did No Data Mining in 2010"
May 12: PressTV, "House Votes to Limit Obama's Ability to Reduce U.S. Nuclear Weapons"
May 11: MSNBC, "Grand Jury to Hear Evidence in WikiLeaks Case"
May 11: Salon, "The WikiLeaks Grand Jury and the Still Escalating War on Whistleblowing"
May 11: National Public Radio, "Case Against WikiLeaks Part of Broader Campaign"
May 10: The Daily Beast, "The CIA's Last Minute Osama bin Laden Drama"
May 10: Government Computer News, "FBI Posted a Perfect Record on Snooping Requests in 2010"
May 7: CJ Chivers.com, "More Images of the Scattering of Type 84 Mines in Misurata"
May 7: Times of India, "Since 9/11, Pakistan Has Got Nearly $20 Billion in U.S. Aid"
May 6: Wired - Threat Level, "Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010"
May 5: Reuters, "Analysis: Could Bin Laden Have Reached Pakistan Nuclear Sites?"
May 5: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Rushing to Capitalize on Bin Laden Intel"
May 5: The Hill - Briefing Room, "Watchdog Group is Prepared to Sue for Photos of Bin Laden"
May 4: Washington Post, "Weighing the Impact of the WikiLeaks Disclosures"
May 4: Mother Jones, "The Price of Secrecy, Obama Edition"
May 3: Popular Mechanics, "Osama bin Laden's DNA: How Sure is 99.9 Percent Sure?"
May 3: Slate, "Osama Raid: How Much Money Did We Waste on That Useless Helicopter?"
May 3: Yahoo - The Lookout, "White House Weighs Release of Bin Laden Pics"
May 3: Tucson Sentinel, "Cost of Pursuing Bin Laden? Half a Trillion and Climbing"
Apr 29: Fast Company, "Bill Gates Takes on Education's Biggest Bureaucratic Beast With Video Games"
Apr 28: Asahi Shimbun, "Nuclear Plants Must Not turn Into Radiological Weapons"
Apr 26: TIME - Battleland Blog, "NATO's Nuclear Weapons: Here to Stay"
Apr 26: Slate, "File Under: Failure"
Apr 26: Federal Times, "More Information Being Classified, Report Says"
Apr 25: TalkingPointsMemo.com, "In Gitmo Opinion - Two Versions of Reality"
Apr 22: Politico, "Barack Obama on Bradley Manning: 'He Broke the Law'"
Apr 21: TIME - Battleland Blog, "Mata Hari, Call Your Office!"
Apr 21: CNN - The Situation Room, "U.S. Drones Over Libya" (transcript)
Apr 21: Montreal Gazette, "CIA Opens the File on the Secret World of Toenail Messages"
Apr 19: Gulf Times, "Alarm Over Nuclear Plant Fuel Rods"
Apr 17: Washington Post, "Budget Cuts Could Close the Door on Obama's 'Open Government' Goal"
Apr 14: CBS News,"Did Secret Spy Satellite Get Blasted to Smithereens?"
Apr 14: Washington Post, "Budget Could Close the Door on Open Government"
Apr 13: Popular Mechanics, "Where are Libya's Anti-Aircraft Missiles?"
Apr 13: Homeland Security Newswire, "Rebels May Sell Missiles to Finance Campaign"
Apr 13: Politico, "White House Visitor Logs Leave Out Many"
Apr 13: Space.com, "Amateur Observations Suggest 20_Year-Old Spy Satellite Was Destroyed"
Apr 11: Vega (Brazil), "Armamentos enviados a rebeldes libio poderiam acabar ate nas favelas do Brasil" (Arms shipped to Libya could end up with rebels in Brazil)
Apr 7: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Nuke Technology to Make British Trident Missile More Accurate"
Apr 6: Washington Post, "Senate Panel Proposes That Leakers of Classified Information Lose Pensions"
Apr 6: The Guardian, "Trident More Effective With U.S. Arming Device, Tests Suggest"
Apr 6: New Scientist, "Rocket Sled Tests Prove F-35's Ejector Seat"
Apr 6: National Review, "Britain and Libya's Special Relationship"
Apr 5: BBC, PRI, WGBH - The World, "Should Libyan Rebels Be Provided Arms?"
Apr 5: National Journal, "Obama Signs Policy Directive on Preparedness"
Apr 4: Global Security Newswire, "British Trident Subs to Field Enhanced U.S.-Made Warheads"
Apr 2: The Guardian, "'Destabilising' Trident Warhead Already Being Tested in U.S."
Apr 1: New York Times Magazine, "Secrecy in Shreds"
Apr 1: San Francisco Examiner, "Obama Finally Accepts Transparency Award in Private Meeting"
Mar 30: Politico, "Shh! Obama Gets Anti-Secrecy Award"
Mar 30: The Hill, "Kyl Should Reconsider Opposition to Nuclear Test Ban"
Mar 30: Nature, "Concerns Over Nuclear Energy Are Legitimate"
Mar 30: Salon, "DOJ Inquiry Says "New Black Panther" Case Was Handled Appropriately"
Mar 30, AOL News, "Western Allies at Odds Over Arming Libyan Rebels"
Mar 25: Global Security Newswire, "Nuclear Agency Security Risk Assessment Not Sufficient, Report Says"
Mar 24: Salon, "Obama Rolls Back Miranda Rights"
Mar 23: PBS NewsHour, "After Japan Crisis, What's Next for U.S. Nuclear Policy?"
Mar 23: Nature, "Do Not Phase Out Nuclear Power Yet"
Mar 23: WIRED - Danger Room, "Who Sold Libya Its Supermissiles?"
Mar 23: Los Angeles Times, "A Nuclear Renaissance in U.S. Was Unlikely Even Before Japan Disaster"
Mar 22: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Looks to Safeguard Medical Isotopes from Terrorists"
Mar 21: U.S. News & World Report, "Japan's Nuclear Crisis Reignites Safety Debate"
Mar 21: Newsday, "Safeguarding Hospitals From 'Dirty Bombs'"
Mar 20: Newsweek, "How Prepared Are we for Nuclear Disaster?"
Mar 20: Daily Beast, "How to Save California"
Mar 20: Chicago Tribune, "Nuclear Energy's Unchanging Plight"
Mar 18: Fox News, "Interview with Charles Ferguson" (transcript)
Mar 18: NPR - Talk of the Nation Science Friday, "Update on Japan's Nuclear Reactors"
Mar 17: MSNBC, "MSNBC Live with Cenk Uygur" (transcript)
Mar 17: Science - Insider, "The Worst Case: What if the Water Ran Dry in the Japanese Reactors?"
Mar 17: BBC News, "Crisis in Japan"
Mar 17: NPR - The Diane Rehm Show, "Japan's Nuclear Crisis and Its Impact on the Nuclear Industry"
Mar 17: Council on Foreign Relations - Analysis Brief, "Clouds Over Japan's Nuclear Response"
Mar 17: Politico, "U.S. Seeks to Seal Info in NSA Leak Case"
Mar 16: NBC News - Nightly News with Brian Williams, "Concern Over Nuke Design Not New"
Mar 16: Wall Street Journal, "Reactor Type, Weather Affect Radiation Risk"
Mar 16: The New Republic, "Do We Really Need Nuclear Power?"
Mar 15: PBS - NewsHour, "Mechanics of a Nuclear Meltdown Explained"
Mar 15: Kyodo News, "Opinion: Future of Nuclear Power in Japan - Advice from American Friend"
Mar 15: Council on Foreign Relations, "Japan's Crisis for Nuclear Power"
Mar 15: National Public Radio (NPR), "Has Obama Lived Up To His Pledge on Transparency?"
Mar 15: American Enterprise Institute, "The French Civilian Nuclear Industry After the Roussely Report"
Mar 14: Huffington Post, "Japan's Nuclear Tremors After Quake"
Mar 14: Huffington Post, "Obama Gets Pushed Out of His Comfort Zone -- And Pushes Back"
Mar 14: KQED Radio, "Japan Earthquake Update"
Mar 14: Washington Post, "The Underwear Flap Over Bradley Manning"
Mar 14: WIRED - Threat Level, "It's Sunshine Week, But Obama's Transparency Record is Cloudy"
Mar 14: MSNBC - Hardball with Chris Matthews, "Preempting a Nuclear Crisis" (video) "Hardball for March 14, 2011 (transcript)"
Mar 13: Buffalo News, "Outlook Gloomy"
Mar 13: News@Washington and Lee, "Japanese Disaster Will Force Rethinking of Nuclear Energy Policies"
Mar 12: Associated Press, "Twitter Must Give User Info in WikiLeaks Probe"
Mar 11: The World, "Japan Quake Prompts Nuclear Emergency"
Mar 11: Associated Press, "U.S. Approved $40 Billion in 2009 Private Arms Sales"
Mar 11: TIME, "WikiLeakers and Whistle-Blowers: Obama's Hard Line"
Mar 10: The Hill - Congress Blog, "The Next Phase of U.S. Strategy on Iran"
Mar 9: Toronto Star, "Who Will Arm Libyan Rebels?"
Mar 7: Aviation Week - Ares Blog, "Libyan Arms Help Stoke the Black Market, May Go Intercontinental"
Mar 7: AOL News, "Outsourcing of Armed Contractors Highest Ever in Afghan War"
Mar 7: TIME - Swampland, "Higher Hired Guns"
Mar 7: Politico, "Despite Openness Pledge, President Obama Pursues Leakers"
Mar 6: CNN, "Uprising in Libya"
Mar 5: CNN, "The Fight for Libya"
Mar 4: CNN, "Libya Weapons Available on Black Market"
Mar 4: CBS News - World Watch, "Experts Fear for Fate of Looted Libyan Arms"
Mar 4: New York Times - At War Blog, "The Perils of Libya's Loose Arms, Part II"
Mar 3: New York Times, "Experts Fear Looted Libyan Arms May Find Way to Terrorists"
Mar 3: ScienceBlogs.com, "DOJ Targets Journalists"
Mar 1: Louisville Courier-Journal, "How to Find Unpublished Reports Used by Congress"
Feb 26: Chicago Tribune, "Highland Park Man Tried to Sell Advanced Weapons to Taliban"
Feb 26: Kansas City Star, "U.S. Trims Its Nuclear Arsenal While Upgrading Production"
Feb 25: Salon, "The DOJ's Creeping War on Whistleblowers"
Feb 25: St. Petersburg Times, "Officer Says He Refused 'Illegal' Order in Afghanistan"
Feb 25: TalkingPointsMemo.com (TPM), "Invoking 'State Secrets': Still the Status Quo?"
Feb 24: Huffington Post, "Julian Assange Is Not Going to be Shipped Off to Stockholm Anytime Soon"
Feb 24: Global Security Newswire, "Limited Nuclear War Could Deplete Ozone Layer, Increasing Radiation"
Feb 24: Global Security Newswire, "Iran Broadens Search for Raw Uranium: Intel"
Feb 23: Nature, "Clash Over Iran's Capability" (subscription required)
Feb 22: Global Security Newswire, "Global Nuclear Materials Lockdown to Take Longer Than Four Years"
Feb 18: Wired - Danger Room, "Go Inside the $56 Billion 'Black' Budget"
Feb 16: PBS NewsHour, "Helium 3 Shortage Affects National Security, Medicine"
Feb 15: Wired - Danger Room, "White House, Intel Chief Can't Agree on Secrecy Budget"
Feb 15: CNN International, "Egypt's Military: Key Facts"
Feb 14: The Atlantic, "Iran Producing Enriched Uranium 'Constantly'"
Feb 14: Washington Post - Spy Talk, "Intelligence Panels Ignored CIA Officer's Pleas"
Feb 11: PBS, "WikiLeaks Ethics"
Feb 11: Fortune, "America's Hottest Export: Weapons - Full Version"
Feb 10: Associated Press, "Expert: Pakistan Building 4th Plutonium Reactor"
Feb 9: PBS NewsHour, "How Tough Is It To Build A Dirty Bomb"
Feb 8: The Guardian, "U.S. Air Force Backtracks Over WikiLeaks Ban"
Feb 8: New Scientist, "U.S. Military Promotes Peace In Space"
Feb 8: Air Force Times, "No Espionage Charges For Airmen on WikiLeaks"
Feb 7: Salon - War Room blog, "Air Force: You Broke the Law If You Read WikiLeaks"
Feb 7: Politico - Under the Radar blog, "Air Force: All WikiLeaks Readers are Criminals"
Feb 5: The Guardian, "Is WikiLeaks Hi-Tech Terrorism or Hype? Washington Can't Decide"
Feb 5: The Voice of Russia, "Ambitions and Reality"
Feb 4: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Navy Rejected Key Command's Specs for Next Nuclear-Armed Sub"
Jan 31: Global Security Newswire, "Pakistani Nuke Stockpile Tops 100, Experts Say"
Jan 31: Washington Post, "New Estimates Put Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal at More Than 100"
Jan 31: Voice of America, "Report Says Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal Tops 100"
Jan 28: Scientific American, "Elite Scientific Advisory Panel Says New Technology Is Needed to Verify Emission Cuts"
Jan 28: Financial Times - Alphaville Blog, "U.S. Foreign Aid to Egypt"
Jan 27: The New Republic, "Words and Consequences: What the Tucson Tragedy and WikiLeaks Have in Common" (subscription required)
Jan 27: Gizmodo, "Parking Garage Car Detector Sparks Privacy Panic"
Jan 26: USA Today - ScienceFair blog, "Panel: Climate Spy Satellite Needed"
Jan 25: Wall Street Journal - China Real Time Blog, "China Watch: Ai's Seeds for Sale, Did Geithner Beat China?"
Jan 25: Federal News Radio, "New Director at CRS May Usher in New Policies"
Jan 24: Global Security Newswire, "Iran Meeting Yields No Deal on Nuclear Standoff"
Jan 24: Los Angeles Times, "Has Santa Monica Gone Too Far With Its New Parking Lot Surveillance System?"
Jan 23: Los Angeles Times, "Servant or Snoop in the Parking Garage?"
Jan 23: Associated Press, "After Failed Iran Nuclear Talks: What Now?"
Jan 23: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Life Away From CIA Still Tangled, Lonely for Indicted Ex-Spy"
Jan 22: The Atlantic - blog, "Report: Iran's Nuclear Program Going Full Speed Ahead"
Jan 22: Agence France-Presse, "Iran Has Boosted Atomic Bomb Ability: U.S. Scientists"
Jan 22: CNN International, "EU Diplomat 'Disappointed' in Nuclear Talks with Iran"
Jan 21: Albuquerque Journal, "A Change of Command" (subscription required)
Jan 20: Associated Press, "Iran's Nuke Program - How Much Time For Diplomacy?"
Jan 20: Wired - Danger Room, "WikiLeaks Views Won't Get Military Computers Wiped"
Jan 20: Popular Mechanics, "Three Questions About the 'Merchant of Death' Trial"
Jan 20: CBS News, "Iran Nuclear Negotiations to Begin Amid Doubts"
Jan 20: FOX News, "Scientists Warn Iran Could Produce Enough Nuclear Material for Warhead in 5 Months"
Jan 20: Global Security Newswire, "Iran Talks to Focus on Fuel Swap, Nuclear Monitoring"
Jan 20: New York Post, "Our 'Sputnik Moment'? China's Military Breakthrough"
Jan 19: Reuters, "Powers to Press Defiant Iran in Nuclear Row"
Jan 19: Global Security Newswire, "Prospects Appear Dim for Upcoming Iran Meeting"
Jan 18: Agence France-Presse, "Russia Puts Brakes on Further Nuclear Cutbacks"
Jan 18: Huffington Post, "Thanks to New START, You Too Can 'Ride Out' A Nuclear Attack"
Jan 17: Albuquerque Journal, "Kirtland's Nuclear Weapons Center Getting New Commander"(subscription required)
Jan 14: Huffington Post, "Genetic Soldiers? Advisory Group Urges Pentagon to Map Genes of All Personnel"
Jan 13: TIME - Swampland, "Braver New World"
Jan 12: United Press International, "Venezuela Missiles Worried U.S., Says Leaked Diplomatic Report"
Jan 11: Associated Press, "Gates Gets Tour of Chinese Nuclear Base"
Jan 11: Mother Jones, "Obama's Drone Memo Dilemma"
Jan 10: Huffington Post, "Gibbs Departure Offers Opportunity to Fix White House Press Relations"
Jan 8: ABC News, "White House Asks Agencies to Review Data Security"
Jan 7: Washington Post, "Former CIA Officer Jeffrey A. Sterling Charged In Leak Probe"
Jan 6: Associated Press, "China Backs Policy of No Pre-emptive Nuke Strikes"
Jan 6: USA Today, "White House Asks Agencies to Review Data Security"
Jan 6: The Independent, "Private Memo Exposes U.S. Fears Over WikiLeaks"
Jan 6: Fast Company, "Is the Federal Government Asking Its Agencies to Treat Employees Like Potential Spies?"
Jan 5: Global Security Newswire, "Homeland Security Delivers Nuclear Detection Plan to Capitol Hill"
Jan 5: MSNBC, "U.S. Tells Agencies: Watch 'Insiders' to Prevent New WikiLeaks"
Jan 4: Mother Jones - Blue Marble Blog, "Fate of Gulf Oil Spill Largely Unknown"
Jan 3: The Hill -- E2 Wire, "Fate of Oil in Gulf May Never Be Known"
Jan: Air Force Magazine, "Chart Page: How Far is Down?"