Category Archives: CBRN

Ex-USSR awash in radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ substances

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 31, 2010
(AFP) It has been of one of Europe’s worst nightmares: traffickers obtaining highly-radioactive materials on the loose in the former Soviet Union with the help of corrupt officials and passing them on to rogue groups looking to make a dirty bomb.
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Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 29, 2010
Daniel Tencer An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s. The Vietnam Veterans of America filed a lawsuit on behalf [...]
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Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 29, 2010
Russian submarines are hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics not seen for 25 years, Navy chiefs have warned. Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent A specially upgraded Russian Akula class submarine has been caught trying to record the acoustic signature made by the Vanguard submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles, according [...]
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Who’s blowing up Iran’s gas pipelines?

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 20, 2010
Con Coughlin/Telegraph In the past few weeks Iran’s gas infrastructure, which is central to the country’s energy requirements, has been hit by a series of unexplained explosions. The series of mysterious explosions began at the end of July when the state-owned Tehran Times reported that a pipeline carrying gas from Iran to Turkey had exploded [...]
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Commentary: Guns of August?

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 19, 2010
Arnaud De Borchgrave/Spacewar For the first two weeks of August, the Internet buzzed with “inside knowledge” of an Israeli airstrike against Iran’s nuclear facilities before the end of the month. One of most quoted warnings came from Philip Giraldi, a polyglot former CIA operative who writes for the American Conservative and is no friend of [...]
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