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National Defense
February 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Commandos Help Stop Weapons Smugglers on High Seas Special operators are playing an active, but low-key part in the proliferation security initiative, which the United States launched in 2003 to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.   |
National Defense
May 2005
Roxana Tiron |
Vying for Defense Dollars China not only is producing a wide array of weapons systems for its own forces, but also is exporting versions of its military hardware to other nations under the wary eye of the United States. |
National Defense
October 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Needs Nonlethal Weapons To Disable Hostile Vehicles and Boats The Defense Department's nonlethal weapons organization is seeking technologies that can help disable motor vehicles and halt small boats. |
National Defense
June 2006
Harold Kennedy |
U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home. |
National Defense
March 2013
Dan Parsons |
Military Seeks Lighter, Stronger Ammo Recognizing that rifle design using gunpowder and self-contained cartridges has neared the zenith of engineering, firearms manufacturers are turning to ammunition as a possible source of further weight reduction. |
Salon.com
September 25, 2002
Robert Scheer |
The arrogance of the Bush Doctrine The president's new foreign policy will only anger other countries, and provoke them to take their own "preemptive action." |
National Defense
January 2004
Harold Kennedy |
U.S.-Led Coalition Seeks To Block Weapon Shipments The United States and 10 other nations have embarked upon a controversial plan to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction by blocking suspect shipments by air, land or sea. |
National Defense
November 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Initiates Study to Measure Value of Precision-Guided Weapons The soaring prices of precision-guided munitions have spawned yet another round of debates in the Army on the role these weapons will play on future battlefields and whether they are worth the cost. |
National Defense
April 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Carrier Overhaul The USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the Navy's oldest nuclear aircraft carrier -- just back from the war in Iraq -- is undergoing a $200 million overhaul that will help her last at least another decade. The work is being done at the Northrop Grumman Newport News, Va., shipyard. |
Salon.com
December 11, 2002
Robert Scheer |
America's weapons of mass destruction If weapons inspectors were to look at the United States, what would they find? |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Assif Shameen |
Indonesia: Oil Smugglers Buy Low And Sell High Because of Indonesia's heavy subsidies on petroleum products, refined oil products are sold there for about a quarter of international prices. When you have such a huge price gap you leave the door open to arbitrage by oil smugglers. |
National Defense
July 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
New Weapons Sought For Special Ops Gunships New more precise weapons are being considered for the now higher flying AC-130. When the AC-130 is phased out state-of-the-art concepts include unmanned craft. |
National Defense
August 2009
Grace Jean |
Weapons Experts Working to Lighten Troops' Small Arms Load Technologists are working to cut small arms weight in half without compromising firepower, and so far prototypes of a redesigned machine gun and ammunition are demonstrating the art of the possible. |
National Defense
June 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Fill Data Gaps for Less-Than-Lethal Weapons Understanding the effects of non-lethal weapons is critical both to their development and the doctrine that will govern their use. Gaining that knowledge, however, is no easy chore, according to military and law enforcement experts. |
National Defense
March 2015
Valerie Insinna |
'Distributed Lethality' Concept Boosts Navy's Need For New Weaponry A new concept called "distributed lethality," describes how legacy vessels would be packed with off-the-shelf weapons and sensors that make them more deadly and survivable. |
National Defense
October 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Cannons, Rockets and Missiles: A Growth Industry in the Army The Army is expected to increase investments in cannon artillery, missiles and rockets, in an effort to extend the range and improve the accuracy of these weapons. |
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2005 |
Non Lethal Weapons Programs in the US Among the programs currently under development at the USMC Non-Lethal Weapons Program are multi-sensory devices aimed to disable individuals within structures. |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2002
Michael Scherer |
Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars... |
National Defense
September 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Army Developing Advanced Ammo for Abrams Tank To be more useful in urban battlefields, the Army's main battle tank needs to be armed with advanced multipurpose rounds that can be adapted for use against different types of targets. |
National Defense
April 2010
Stew Magnuson |
WMD Commission: 'We're Not Going Away' The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism is not being continued by the government, but the members are starting non-profit with the same mission. |
Popular Mechanics
February 22, 2008
Adam Pitluk |
3 Things We Learned From the Accidental U.S. Nuke Flyby One might think that the United States' nuclear weapons would be treated with the utmost precision, but last year they mistakenly transported over the mainland. |
Salon.com
January 2, 2003
Robert Scheer |
Bush's illogical foreign policy The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine. |
National Defense
November 2015
Jim Schatz |
U.S. Military Losing Edge in Small Arms The current U.S. Army small arms development and acquisition system is dysfunctional and virtually unworkable, even for those within the system. |
National Defense
August 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Army Will Boost Supply of Small Cal Ammo, Weapons Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are consuming small caliber ammunition at rates the U.S. Army has not seen in years. |
Wired
March 2002
Evan Ratliff |
This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late... |
National Defense
December 2004
Robert H. Williams |
NATO Struggling to Define Its Role in War on Terrorism Within the treaty organization, they noted, there is considerable disagreement over the definition of terrorism and obvious disapproval of the United States' "SWAT team" approach to combating this threat. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2005
DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems. |
Popular Mechanics
November 11, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
How BAE's Jam Lab Develops Countermeasures Against Antiaircraft Missiles Engineers at BAE dissect and stress older targeted antiaircraft missiles to figure out how to defend against them. |
National Defense
June 2013
Dan Parsons |
Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder? The U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid off, as the Navy is set to deploy the first laser small enough to fit on a ship. |
